Lopa and his (Possible) Replacements

July 10, 2001

As the body of Professor Dr. Haji Baharuddin Lopa was lowered into the grave last Friday at the Heroes' Cemetery, Kalibata, Jakarta, a poster was visible in the crowd: "The death of Lopa is not the death of justice", it read. In a "normal" situation, a poster such as this could be seen as the empty rhetoric of demonstrators taking advantage of any occasion to voice their feelings. But when the poster is raised in a country where the law has long been

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