Riza Chalid in the Pertamina Oil Import Case

THERE was a time when no one dared to say Riza Chalid’s full name aloud. At most, oil traders would refer to him by his initials—MR. The “M” stood for Mohammad or Mores, the name of an oil company. Mohammad Riza Chalid was widely known as the “godfather,” a term borrowed from Mario Puzo’s novel about the Sicilian mafia that controlled America’s underworld.

Back in 2008, when we reported on the im