The Chronic Sickness in Our Courts

Dimyati Sudrajad is the first Supreme Court judge to have been detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for taking bribes. This shows the dilapidated state of our court system.

 

Tempo

October 17, 2022

THE detention of Supreme Court Justice Dimyati Sudrajad is a symptom of the worsening chronic sickness within the court system in Indonesia. As well as in the first and second level courts, bribery and the selling of verdicts has now become an everyday practice at the Supreme Court. 

Dimyati might be only the tip of the iceberg. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detained him for allegedly taking Rp850 million in bribes when dealin

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