State Secretary Djohan Effendi is confused. Not about the president's ideas for a state of emergency or dissolving the legislature. These confusing things apparently do not confuse him any more. It is another issue again—a valuable `legacy' of land.

According to a source close to the palace, for two months Djohan has been pressed by President Abdurrahman Wahid to sign a decree concerning the status of 1,600 square meters of land near the s