I was disappointed when the investigator Wayan Karta told me a few weeks later that they had dropped the investigation because all witnesses had confirmed a Balinese wedding had occurred in 1996 and therefore they found no evidence of a crime.

But I was astonished and angry three months later to learn from my new attorneys, Maharidzal SH and Mangasi Simangunsong SH, that I had never reported Fraud - Penipuan - at all.

Rifan had misinformed me in his translation. I had reported Pengelapan - or Embezzlement - which under Indonesian law is impossible between husband and wife.

With my new attorneys Maharidzal and Mangasi Simangunsong, I reported again at Polda Bali, this time with the correct term for Fraud - Penipuan.

It took over four hours of negotiating before Maharidzal and Simangunsong were satisfied with the assignment of an investigator, Hagnyono SH, they felt we could trust.

Hagnyono examined twenty one witnesses along with photographs and documents, and eventually Made Jati was called for examination as a suspect. She admitted that the Balinese marriage ceremony she claimed for 1996 had never occurred.

The file was sent to the Public Prosecutor, but there it ran into strong opposition from unnamed "people upstairs". The case began to bounce back and forth between Polda Bali and the Prosecutor every fourteen days, with the Prosecutor asking for increasingly opaque clarifications, and Polda providing increasingly repetitive answers.