BOEDI Sampoerna was deeply in thought as he sat in the family room of his home on Jalan Untung Surapati, Surabaya, on Thursday last week. As he returned from abroad, he was given newspaper clippings about himself.

He placed the clippings on the oval wooden table in front of him. He looked at Eman Achmad Sulaeman, his lawyer, who sat across from him at the table. “All this news about me is bad,” he said, as imitated by Eman. Boedi had heard t