There are still five years to go with Akhmad Muqowam’s assignment to Senayan. But the people’s representative from the United Development Party already has a plan for when he retires: to be a tempe (soybean cake) businessman. “I used to help my grandmother from planting, harvesting soybean, to making tempe,” said the politician who grew up in Ngawi, East Java.

This isn’t your average tempe. “The ingredient is pure soybean without add