IF the rules can be ignored in the interest of one group, the government that drew them up loses authority. The Cikampek-Palimanan toll road project is an example of a dubious practice that should not have been allowed to happen.

It is only right to suspect that this happened because of the business interests of one person in power. This suspicion arose because one of the members of the Lintas Marga Sedaya consortium, builders of the toll road,