HIS cell was musty, his bed was damp. A stink wafted out of the toilet at the West Jakarta Police Detention Center, where a member of the House of Representatives (DPR), Hamka Yandhu, has been detained together with petty criminals since last month. Confined in the smelly cell, the legislator seemed unable to bear any longer.

It was then Hamka, a suspect in the case involving Bank Indonesia’s Rp31.5 billion flow of funds into the DPR, began ta