IT is almost impossible to avoid the impression that 'dark forces' are at work trying to prevent the facts behind the murder of Munir Said Thalib 12 years ago, from being exposed. The human rights activist died on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004. A fatal dose of arsenic was found in his body.

Since then, the Munir case has been suspended somewhere between reality and hope. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono establish