Andi Samsan Nganro:
Guidance from Palm Leaves
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
A MESSAGE he found written on palm leaves hundreds of years ago, has been a constant reference for Justice Andi Samsan Nganro. Judges, as is written on those leaves, may not make verdicts when they are in one of three states: angry, happy or hungry.
Andi has been loyal to this ancestral advice. "A judge who is feeling angry might punish the innocent, when he is happy he could release a guilty party or give lenient sentences to major criminals," said
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