METTA Dharmasaputra never imagined he would someday be in the news. Last Monday, following the publication of Tempo’s cover story Killing Time, this magazine’s investigative editor was busy clipping some news articles when he read his own name and initials in a number of media reports.

What upset Metta was that the reports had him ignoring summonses by the police as a witness in the embezzlement case of PT Asian Agri funds, a subsidiary of R