Protection
AMID the gloom of recent executions, there was some good news last week. The Constitutional Court granted an appeal to review several clauses in the Criminal Code (KUHAP). This is commendable because the court ruling will reinforce the protection and the rights of suspects from arbitrary acts carried out by law enforcement officers.
The court granted parts of the review request filed by Bachtiar Abdul Fatah, who was convicted of corruption in the PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia case. Indirectly, the court decided to end the long debate over the naming of suspects in pretrial hearings. Perhaps the 'motivation' came after Judge Sarpin Rizaldi revoked the indictment status of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan following a pretrial hearing.
May 5, 2015
AMID the gloom of recent executions, there was some good news last week. The Constitutional Court granted an appeal to review several clauses in the Criminal Code (KUHAP). This is commendable because the court ruling will reinforce the protection and the rights of suspects from arbitrary acts carried out by law enforcement officers.
The court granted parts of the review request filed by Bachtiar Abdul Fatah, who was convicted of corruption in th
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