Firm, Like Flaccid Celery

Only a few of the large corruption cases are being dealt with properly by prosecutors. Is this because the president isn’t brave enough to take a firm attitude or because the attorney general needs to be replaced?

February 5, 2002

IF there was a public contest over who was worst at upholding the law, it does seem that the prosecutors would win hands down. As the government department in charge of dealing with corruption cases, the office of the public prosecutor is considered not to have made any progress at all regarding muzzling corruption, especially as regards those cases that were a legacy of the New Order regime. During the almost six months since M.A. Rachman was ap

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