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The South Jakarta District Court heard a report on Tuesday that described murder suspect Antasari Azhar as aggressive and egocentric, yet sensitive.

“Antasari possesses the potential to become aggressive,” state-appointed criminal psychologist Yusti Probowati said. “Every person has the potential to become aggressive. Antasari can manage his temper, which helps him cover his aggressiveness.”

His jobs as a prosecutor and later as the chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) might have helped him express his true personality, she added.

Further results from Antasari’s psychological examination were later read out by the prosecution, because Yusti was restricted by her professional code of ethics from revealing them herself.

Prosecutor Zainal Arif said Antasari was the kind of man who carefully calculated everything he did, and was an egocentric person who perceived good and evil based solely on his own interests.

“When it comes to personal pride, his demand for power, he is very sensitive,” Zainal said, continuing to read aloud from the report.

The report was prepared by Yusti and her team after performing a psychological evaluation of Antasari at Jakarta Police headquarters, where the defendant is being held while on trial for allegedly ordering the murder of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen.

Antasari, the prosecutor said, could become paranoid and aggressive if he thought his power was being threatened.

As part of his personality, Zainal said, Antasari would also express his anger in a carefully executed manner. “He tends to disregard the interests of other people,” he added.

Zainal also said that Antasari was not very religious and did not take into account religious values in his actions. This, however, may have come as a surprise to Antasari, who in an exclusive interview with the Jakarta Globe last Friday, said that he was a religious person and that he thought his case was “a test from God.”