A rope for corruptors

Political parties are stridently defending members indicted for corruption. Thanks to the wrong law, the line between the corrupt and the uncorrupt is blurred.

Tempo

February 22, 2005

THE man was jolted upright by the pounding of the judge’s gavel. He got up from the defendant’s chair and walked out of the Bogor City Court. His supporters from the PDI-P cheered noisily and carried him out on their shoulders. That day, Bogor Deputy Mayor Haji Mochamad Sahid had just escaped disaster. Outside, he prostrated himself on the ground, thanking God. His tears flowed, unrestrained. “God be praised, I’m free,R

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