ADI Zain Ginting was feeling blue. Sitting cross-legged on a mattress in the sitting room of his small home in Alley I on Jalan Ismaliyah, Medan, the 56-year-old masseur was frowning most of the time. He was thinking hard, trying to compose a letter. “I’m drafting an apology,” said Adi on Thursday last week.

He was going to send the letter to presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and his running mate Boediono. The police na