Questionable Questioning

An expert witness is called when the judge is not an expert in a certain fieldor at least that is how it should be. They should not be experts in criminal law.

June 11, 2002

The trial of Akbar Tandjung, Dadang Sukandar and Winfried Simatupang over the State Logistic Agency (Bulog)'s non-budgetary fund is getting stranger by the day. Last Monday, legal counsel for the defendants produced four legal experts as witnesses, namely Prof. Dr. Ismail Sunny (an expert in state law from University of Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Andi Hamzah (an expert in criminal law from Trisakti University), Prof. Dr. Bambang Purnomo (an expert

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