EACH morning the robust man would jog around the Blambangan Square in the center of Banyuwangi City, East Java. “He’s also keen on golf,” Chief Brigadier Kusmin, aide to Imam Sudjarwo when still Chief of the Banyuwangi Police in 1999, recounted.

Kusmin did not forget that every morning Imam asked to be served with a plate of hot fried soybean cake on his desk. “Bapak likes it very much, to be eaten with chili,” he said Friday last week