Ginandjar's lawyer Muchyar Yara:"It has entered the personal domain"

No sooner had Judge Soedarto of the South Jakarta District Court delivered his decision in a pretrial hearing in favor of former minister Ginandjar Kartasasmita, people began to assume that the state court verdict was nothing more than a political ploy. The court decision declared that the Attorney General had no authority to detain Ginandjar, a former "strong man" of the New Order regime. The court ruled that only a combined investigation team inv...