Moerdiono's sentences still come out a word at a time, just as they did when he was an important assistant to former president Suharto. Last Thursday the once highly influential former state secretary was questioned at the Round Building at the Attorney General's Office (AGO) as a witness in a corruption case.

He is thought to be involved in an old case: the dredging of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan. As with many other cases of corruption