Still Yellow-bellied?

June 12, 2001

If the times are a-changing, have the changes reached the Supreme Court? Under the New Order, the top legal authority in the land was the lapdog of the executive branch of government. The court even held the view that it did not have the power to test the authority of the executive, in other words the presidency. That view was regarded as absolute and was respected by courts lower in the system. For 32 years under former president Suharto, it was

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