The Endof the Queens Legacy

The Constitutional Court deletes three articles from the Criminal Code. The Supreme Court is yet to react.

December 12, 2006

THE former Indonesian Islamic Workers Union Chairman, Eggy Sudjana, happily shook hands with his friend, Pandapotan Lubis, and his lawyers after winning his case in the Constitutional Court. The audience clapped their hands and one person shouted, Long live the judges!

The nine judges of the court had just frozen several articles on insult of the President from the Criminal Code. Those articles are no longer considered compatible with the Constitu

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