Ignatius Pleads for Death

FOR THE Constitutional Court, the situation was unprecedented: here the justices were, pleading with a judicial review applicant to cancel his request.

"I was troubled as I read this request," justice Patrialis Akbar said at the hearing on July 16. "There has never been such a case."

The regulation in question was Article 344 of the Criminal Code (KUHP), which prohibits one individual from helping another end their life. Violators of the law can fa

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