PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono once said that the Munir case was a “make or break” situation. It was decided last Wednesday, by a panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court, which acquitted Muchdi Purwoprandjono in the murder of Munir Said Thalib, who was poisoned during a flight to Europe on September 7, 2004.

The judges, headed by Suharto, stated that Muchdi, the former Commander of the Special Forces who was at the time secon