SEVERAL members of the House of Representatives (DPR) crowded in the lobby of the parliamentary building that afternoon. “This is too much,” complained one member as quoted by Dradjad H. Wibowo, a member of the House Finance Commission.

The scene took place at the close of a DPR session on Friday two weeks ago. Two weeks earlier the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) sent a letter to the head of a DPR commission asking for participation