SUDJIONO Timan had not been detained. There was no legal reason for doing so. The judges at the South Jakarta District Court, the first court to try him, had released him from custody. Although the state lost trillions of rupiah as a result of Sudjiono's actions, the judges at the South Jakarta District Court pronounced it to be nothing more than a civil case.

The prosecution immediately filed an appeal. Over two years later, the Supreme Co