TESTIFYING in court, Gayus Halomoan Tambunan, currently the most talked-about person in Indonesia, asked the president to appoint him as an expert staff at either the National Police Force, the Attorney General’s Office or the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). He then promised, if that could be done, in two years’ time Indonesia would be rid of its corruption problem.

Many were shocked or merely laughed off Gayus’s statement. Possib