Court Chicanery
A Supreme Court junior official is on trial for corruption. When will the big fish of the judicial system be inescapably hooked and reeled in?
June 26, 2001
For the first time in over a decade, an official of the Supreme Court went on trial last Thursday at the South Jakarta District Court, for corruption. Zainal Agus, a clerk in charge of administrative cases, was accused of receiving Rp100 million in cash and a gold pen from an attorney-at-law in a case that was under review by an appeals court at the time.
Wearing a checked tie and a pair of Dupont glasses, 62-year-old Zainal did not give the app
...