Street Justice Becoming More Frightening

A defendant is dragged from a courtroom and butchered by a mob. In Bali, a man who won a dispute over a villa in Bedugul is stabbed by locals and dies.

January 8, 2001

The nobility of the law is almost at the point of non-existence. This will become a reality if the majority of the people take the law into their own hands, not only on the streets but before the law as well. This was proven some time ago in the Putussibau District Court in West Kalimantan. An estimated 300 people attending a hearing forcefully seized defendant Usnata, 31, and beat him to death.

Usnata was being tried for the murder of James Sa

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