Maintaining Dignity

The defendants charged with insulting the President appeal at the Constitutional Court and demand that the article be abolished.

October 10, 2006

LAST September at the Constitutional Court, Eggy Sudjana spoke up boldly: I am puzzled. This article can be interpreted in different ways by the government. Pak Effendi regularly criticizes the government on the airwaves through a popular television satire called Republik BBM but he is not charged at all, while I, who merely asked for information from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), am indicted.

Effendi Ghazali, responded: Everyone

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