IN the beginning La Ode Abdul Manan Ganiru was highly motivated in running for membership in the KPU of Southeast Sulawesi Province. With the intention to complete his candidacy file, this activist of an anticorruption institute went to the Kendari District Court to obtain a letter certifying that he had never been sentenced for any crime. Well, he had to deposit Rp125,000.

"I didn't know it was an illegal levy," said Manan, 33. Later on he h