PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono once said that the Munir case was a game of high stakes. The success or failure of the police in solving the case will indicate how serious the government can be when it comes to handling human rights cases. Failure to solve Munir’s murder would be seen as a black mark on the nation’s chief executive.

This high-stakes game now seems to have entered its most decisive phase. The police, who appear to have be