Winning Effortlessly

Prosecutors not only mistakenly prioritized their case, their indictments were poorly prepared. And bribery should have been part of the charges.

June 19, 2007

THE acquittals of Pontjo Sutowo and Ali Mazi should surprise nobody if we look at the way the prosecutors acted. From the very beginning, the two suspects were very fortunate in that they received special treatment. They were not locked up in a detention center, even though they were accused of a crime: corruption over the illegal extension of a building permit (HGB) and land use permit (HPL) held by the State Secretariat, resulting in the state

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