Failure by Design

Regional Corruption Courts have been too quick to release people charged with corruption. Major corruption cases should be tried in Jakarta.

November 16, 2011

THERE is something strange about more and more people charged with corruption being released because of contentious judicial considerations. If this keeps happening in Corruption Courts in the regions, the efforts to eradicate corruption in this country will come to nought. Corruption will flourish and the guilty will have nothing to fear or be ashamed of.

Take the Samarinda Corruption Court. Two weeks ago, it acquitted 14 former members of the Ku

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