Effendi Mukhtars strike of the gavel reignited the Bank Century controversy. The South Jakarta District Court judge went too far in his pre-trial ruling. He ordered the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to continue investigation into the Bank Century affair and named former Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Boediono and his colleagues suspects.

The ruling was clearly outside the scope of a pre-trial hearing. According to the Criminal Code Proce