Law in Indonesia: Far from Justice

I live in Indonesia, most of us know that indonesian law system is filthy, corrupt, and unjust. But what I’ve just read quite disturb me. The Corruption Court’s punishment to Saleh Djasit for stealing RP 4.7 billion in the 2003 procurement of fire engines for the province is only four years in prison, while a poor farmer in East Nusa Tenggara, who stole 15 metres of cable from PLN–which the value perhaps is just enough to cover three months of his kind of humble living–sentenced 15 years behind prison! That’s hardly comparable with Saleh Djasit’s case who sentenced four years! Can we still call it law if it sided more to “the have” rather than providing equal justice to all citizen?

 

“There’s no justice in the world,

there’s no justice in the world

and there never would”

–Soldier’s Poem by Muse–