IN Bandung, a city historically renowned for its struggle against the Dutch, efforts to eradicate corruption have declined drastically. The city's spirit encapsulated in the song Halo Halo Bandung failed to fire up the anticorruption drive. In fact it is in this city, once set aflame by its own residents to stop the Dutch from turning it into a military base, that corruptors have found their safe haven.

So many were disappointed when Bandung's anti