RAFAEL Alun Trisambodo has made a complete mockery of the bureaucratic reforms proclaimed by the finance ministry more than a decade ago. With ‘official’ assets amounting to Rp56 billion, the head of General Affairs of the South Jakarta II Tax Directorate-General is actually believed to be far wealthier.

Rafael was eventually removed from his position by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani. He was an echelon III civil servant at the tax dir