THE eradication of corruption in Indonesia recently is like the old saying about moss growing on a rock. After the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has ‘no will to live, nor will to die’ as a result of a being enfeebled by law, now the courts have also lost their enthusiasm to deal with wrongdoers.

In September, the Corruption Court freed Suheri Terta, who had been charged with bribing Annas Maamun, governor of Riau from Febru