THE most moving part of the swearing-in ceremony of the 2009-2014 members of the House of Representatives (DPR) last week should have been when they took their oaths. After all, they had sworn “in the name of God” not in the name of perks of the job, like cellphones, allowances or overseas trip.

They swore, “in the name of God” that they would...”work to the best of their abilities to uphold democracy, and to put the interests of the n