Justice for Ahok

The calls for the Supreme Court to reject Ahok’s legal challenge of his conviction should be ignored. Justice must not bow down to mob pressure.

March 5, 2018

The demand from a group calling itself the 212 Alumni makes no sense. They have threatened to bring huge crowds onto the streets during the hearing of the case review petition of former Jakarta governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok. They are demanding the judges reject the legal challenge. The Supreme Court justices who will make the ruling must not be intimidated. There must be no repeat of the original Ahok verdict, which the jud

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