Hard to Fill the Hot Seat

Indonesia's legal man of steel was laid to rest in the Kalibata heroes' cemetery in South Jakarta last Friday. And late attor-ney general Baharuddin Lopa did not go to his grave alone. With him went widespread hopes that the light of justice would finally shine brightly from the place it should, the `Round Building' of the Attorney General's Office, long stifled by corruption. It was as if justice had been buried along with Lopa.

In his brief perio

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