International Law

?Now our relations are no good because the K.P.K. started picking on their high officials,? said Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas, a former deputy chairman at the commission. ?We suspect each other.? More recently, an active high-ranking police official, Susno Duadji, was wiretapped by the commission and caught asking for a $1 million bribe. In an interview with Tempo, the country?s most respected magazine, the police official said he knew he was being wiretapped and played along with the caller; in an allusion to the anticorruption commission and the police, he said, ?It?s like a gecko challenging a crocodile.?