The pitiful portrait of Indonesian justice
Corrupt practices continue to bedevil the Indonesian justice system _ five years after reformasi.
May 20, 2003
ONE afternoon in Room No. 12 of the Jakarta High Court Building. Inside, Judge Faozatulo Zendrato was talking with a guest. Dressed in dark blue safari jacket, he looked relaxed sitting in a chair with his feet stretched out. Three glass-covered desks crowded one side of the room. clean and uncluttered by piles of dossiers, documents and books normally seen on the desk of a busy court official.
As a judge largely involved in administrati
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