It has been a difficult fasting month for Daryatmo Mardiyanto. The secretary of the Golkar faction in the House of Representatives (DPR) has had to go on safari.

This was not an ordinary safari. It was a safari from one meeting to another, lobbying for his partys survival.

Last Friday, after an internal faction meeting at the DPR in Senayan, he keenly told journalists what his party thought about the issue of Buloggate II and the proposed special