MUHAMMAD Farhan’s remark on professional soccer clubs and government subsidies was quite a reproach. “While we’d be embarrassed, we have no idea of its accountability. It’s public money, we’re a private company,” he told Tempo two weeks ago.

The statement has to do with the attitude of Bandung’s Persib club, which refuses to receive financial support from the local government’s Regional Budget (APBD). This time Farhan wasn’t i