With its wide-ranging authority, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) should be able to unravel a case alleged to have involved a number of important people, including Zulkifli Hasan. There are indications that the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN) abused his authority while serving as forestry minister.

The name Zulkifli—at the time speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly—emerged during the