SYAUKANI Hasan Rais would do well to forget his intention of resuming his candidacy for the governorship of East Kalimantan. Not only because he is currently under sentence in a corruption case, but his persistence in running for public office is, purely and simply, unethical.

The Corruption Court panel of judges led by Kresna Menon sentenced the man who once ran the richest regency in Indonesia to two and a half years in jail. He was found guil