THE Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) drama in Indonesia presents a new scene: “The Song of Antasari.” It all started with a four-page handwritten document, the testimony of Antasari Azhar, the inactive Chairman of the KPK, who is being held by police on charges of premeditated murder.

The testimony—or testimonium de auditu—is a third-person “account” which must be verified before it acquires legal standing. In the testimony, t