A Rare Breed
A judge who travels to and from his office on public transport, Iriawan has no qualms about sentencing drug traffickers to death.
November 12, 2002
IN this country, the law has long been subjugated to power, money and guns. The court has long been transformed from a place where you seek justice to a "hell" for the poor. Looking for judges and prosecutors free from bribery may be as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.
We have thousands of judges and prosecutors. Is it true that none of them can resist bribery and keep their conscience?
Perhaps so, but perhaps not in the
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