WE understand that corruption has long crept into the police and the Attorney General’s Office. But if there are signs that this sickness has begun to strike the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)—the body established because the police and prosecutors were seen as unable to combat this cancer—the KPK and the public must be on the alert.

Some bad omens have appeared. Several people who have had legal dealings with the KPK have been ap