EqualAt Last
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A DEMOCRATIC government is a government that is not allergic to criticism from its people. Perhaps it was this way of thinking that led to the Constitutional Court revoking the articles concerning insulting the President from the Criminal Code last week. This is good news for democracy in Indonesia.
The Court ruled that articles 134, 136 bis and 137 were no longer relevant in an Indonesia whose Constitution guarantees freedom of expression. The hi
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