Caught in the Vortex
Suspected bribery of the panel of Supreme Court justices handling the D.L. Sitorus case in 2008 has recently come to light. Former lawyer Amir Syamsuddinnow a ministeris said to have known about the under-the-table payments.
November 2, 2011
Without any hesitation Hendrik R.E. Assa pointed to the package of dog-eared documents that we had put in front of him. "These are the ones I came across in 2009," said Hendrik, born in Manado 45 years ago. When we met him in a Central Jakarta hotel, last Wednesday, he looked at every page. His face was tense.
Quiet for an instant, the lawyer recounted the origin of the documents. One evening in January 2009, he said, he was looking for something in
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