Meet Basuki Hariman: priest, corruption convict, meat import businessman, and since recently also one of Indonesia’s largest garlic importers. He is part of a small circle of men who, a close reading of import trade data suggests, have captured much of Indonesia’s roughly USD 650m-a-year garlic import trade. Basuki with KPK vest In early 2017 he and a close associate, Ng Fenny, were arrested by Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commissions, the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), for bribing an Indonesian Constitutional Court justice, Patrialis Akbar, to influence a judicial review. Basuki’s business involved importing beef from countries like Australia and the USA. The enactment of the 2014 law allowed the government to import buffalo meat from India, which led to lower market prices and decreased demand for his company’s imported beef. ( By winning the judicial review, he hoped to stop or limit these buffalo meat imports to protect his business interests. (74/PID.SUS/TPK/2017/PN.Jk...