NO party was held on the 18th floor of the Sudirman Tower in Jakarta that day to celebrate a ruling issued earlier in the week by the Constitutional Court annulling an old law on parliament’s investigative right. Sutjipto, a notary public and member of parliament from the Democrat Party, has his office there.

Together with his assistant Bambang Supriyanto and three other members of his staff, Sutjipto drafted the request to the Constitutional