SOME of his colleagues know Bambang Hendarso Danuri as a figure who is firm and uncompromising. One time, someone wanted to introduce him, as North Sumatra Chief of Police, to Adelin Lis, a suspect in an illegal logging case in Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra. “I refused that meeting,” he said.

Just a year after taking the position in North Sumatra, in 2006 Bambang was promoted to become head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau at