THE 16-year jail sentence and Rp1 billion fine handed down to Luthfi Hasan was the harshest sentence given to a senior politician in the history of Indonesia. The Corruption Court, which tried the former president of the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS), is to be commended. The PKS can now make use of the momentum to put its house in order, assuming it does not take the negative approach of viewing the sentence as a political attack.

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