FINANCE Minister Sri Mulyani was not joking when she said that her decision to accept the offer from World Bank President Robert Zoellick was “God’s way” of doing things. She may have wanted to explain that there was a mighty power urging her to leave her country, which had grown increasingly disapproving of the straight path that she has taken.

We hoped—as many did in this nation—that there would be something to divert Mulyani’s “