CARRYING a file, Alvin Lie approached the table of the session chairman. To Muhaimin Iskandar, who presided at the meeting, the National Mandate Party (PAN) politician said: “It was not the President’s reply but the Minister’s.” Then he just walked off.

Alvin’s move was followed by around 20 other members of the House of Representatives (DPR). They went forward together to deliver the documents. Some members yelled: “Yudhoyono’s w