Regional Elections
From Election to Prison

Two losing regent candidates are trapped in debts. One of them is clinically depressed while the other has disappeared.

August 19, 2008

TALL and heavy-set, the man in the dark grey suit approached the audience in a trial session at the Ponorogo Regency District Court, East Java. Smiling broadly, he shook hands with the visitors, who seemed surprised at his presence. “I’m all right,” Yuli Nursanto, 39, told the spectators at the court.

As if wishing to sound more convincing, Yuli, laughing heartily, added: “I’m sane, I’m not sick.” The trial was held on Thursday

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