LAST week, Bambang Wuryanto accepted an invitation to attend a People's Consultative Assembly's (MPR) deliberation meeting on behalf of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction. The party's secretary received the invitation at 6.30pm, saying he was caught unawares. "It was very sudden," he said last week.

Chaired by DPR Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon, the meeting's agenda was to determine the schedule for a plenary meeting to replace Hous