In front of dozens of Indonesian reporters crowding the Indonesian Council of Ulamas (MUI) auditorium on Wednesday last week, Amidhan Shaberah vehemently denied last week's Tempo article regarding a suspected scam of halal accreditation for certification institutions abroad. The MUI chairman rejected the notion that he had received US$28,000 from an Australian entrepreneur.

Amidhan claimed that his trip to Australia of April 2-8, 2006, had been p