Jakarta

IT is a scandal that reaches into the pockets of virtually every Indonesian aged 17 and up, and may deliver a political earthquake less than a month before residents of Jakarta return to the polls for a second round of voting for governor.

Indonesia's corruption watchdog, the KPK, has released dozens of names of politicians past and present and from across most major parties, who are suspected of siphoning the equivalent of as much as S$268 million from a programme to revamp the country's identity cards.