Baharuddin Lopa: "The president supports the move"
April 3, 2001
Just a month after becoming Minister for Justice & Human Rights, Baharuddin Lopa has taken a drastic and bold step. Last Tuesday, he transferred Suharto crony Bob Hasan, now serving a six-year prison sentence, from a penitentiary in Jakarta to Nusakambangan, Indonesia's feared Alcatraz. Lopa also imposed sanctions on 12 judges and seven court registrars for abuse of power. All this in an effort to clean up a judiciary which is rotten to the co
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