The police should be serious in their handling of the assault on two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officials at the Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta, two weeks ago last Saturday. Without legal punishment of the people responsible and those who ordered them to act, this barbaric act will become a bad precedent in the endeavor to eradicate corruption.

The assault is thought to be linked to the budget meeting of the Papuan Provincial Adminis