THE middle-aged woman was visibly reluctant to leave the house in the Tegal Lega administrative district of Bogor in West Java. Although Siti Sianah, the wife of Soleh Solahuddin, the Minister of Agriculture during the administration of former President Habibie, did finally emerge she was tight-lipped. “No interviews right now. Later,” she said on Friday last week.

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