The Wrong Side of the Law

Hotshot lawyer Yan Apul was tried by a Surabaya court. The charge? Advocating the forgery of a company deed.

February 27, 2001

LATELY, lawyers have become the butt of many jokes in Indonesia. Although the country has yet to fully recover from economic crisis, many advocates are positively "swimming" in money earned from defending all manner of corruption cases. It all became too much to stomach when the public finally decided that former president Suharto’s lawyer Juan Felix Tampubolon had obstructed the execution of Tommy Suharto’s sentence. And as

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