Indonesia Detains Graft Foe

By TOM WRIGHT Indonesian police detained the head of the nation’s anticorruption agency on Monday as a possible suspect in a murder investigation, an untimely development for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is running for re-election in July on a clean-government platform. Antasari Azhar, chairman of the independent Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, hadn’t been charged with any crime. Mr. Azhar was detained in connection with the killing in March of a state-owned pharmaceutical company director who was gunned…

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