About Justice

" Justice has been done! "  That's what U.S President Barack Obama told reporters after he announced that the world terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S naval Seals in Pakistan last Monday.

By saying those words, he made it sound as if the killing was legitimate based on the verdict of the court of law, while actually it was based on executive order to avenge the death of thousands of U.S citizens killed by the suicide bombings of the World Trade Center, New York, on 11 September 2001, allegedly instructed by Osama.

The above words reminds me of the lyrics of a song of one of my most favorite rock band YES i.e. Hold On, as follows : 

Justice to the left of you 

Justice to the right

Speak when you are spoken to

Don't pretend you're right

Life is not for living

It's for fighting and for war

No matter what the truth is

Hold on to what is yours

Jigsaw puzzle traitors

Set to spill the beans

Constitution screw up

Shattering the dreams

Blood flow in the dessert

Dark citadels burning too

Watch! Look over your shoulder

This one is strictly for you

Hold on, hold on

 More lyrics ....

Coins for Justice

Today, the number of coins donated by people all over Indonesia to help Prita Mulyasari has reached more than 650 million Rupiah.

This is 3 times higher than the 204 million Rupiah (US$ 21,600) fine that Prita must pay based on the verdict of the High Court of Banten regarding Civil Defamation Lawsuit filed against her by the Omni International Hospital in Banten.

The support for Prita has forced the hospital to request for cancellation of Civil proceedings, and request for amicable settlement based on the intermediary of the Minister of Health.

These efforts failed, because Prita wants the Criminal Prosecution against her at the District Court of Tangerang to be canceled too, but cannot be fulfilled by the hospital. So Prita appealed with the Supreme Court for the civil lawsuit case.

Although the Criminal Prosecution is carried out by the District Attorney, but Prita's demand is reasonable, because the Prosecution exists based on the hospital's report to the Police.

In connection with the injustice faced by Prita and the people's support, a businessman Rahmat Shah said that he wants to buy the coins and build a statue that symbolize justice in his hometown Medan North Sumatera.

For detailed media reports, please click here and here.

The coins shows that people hated the injustice faced by Prita who was jailed for 3 weeks just because she sent e-mail to her relatives and friends about the hospital's terrible services.
Whereas there are other people who were suspected of conspiracy against the Corruption Eradication Commission(KPK) but still untouched by the law.


Image: Courtesy of Wikia.

A long way to Justice

Where is justice ? That’s the question I asked whenever I am very sick and tired of all the media reports about the inappropriate enforcement of the laws.

And that’s what I asked my self when I read the news about criminalization of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), starting from the arrest of KPK Chief Antasari for murder charges until the arrest of two suspended KPK Vice Chiefs Bibit & Chandra for allegedly receiving bribe from businessman Anggodo, and their release after the Constitutional Court held a public hearing of a recording that indicate involvement of Anggodo and top officials of the Police and the Attorney General Office (AGO) in the conspiracy against KPK leadership. And until now Anggodo is still free as a bird.

My curiosity became stronger after President Susilo Bambang Yudono (SBY) announced on 22 November that he wants the case to be settled out of court, but he did not say that it shall be stopped as demanded by the public. Although he urged the Police, AGO and KPK to reform themselves, but he did not give any sanction to officials who were allegedly involved in the KPK case as also demanded by the public.

On the next day, the Financial Audit Agency (BPK) announced result of its audit on the flow of taxpayers' money amounting Rp 6,7 Trillion to bail out a privately owned Bank Century, saying that the role of Bank Indonesia as central bank at that time headed by Boediono (now VP), in the flow of money has not been correct.

In reaction to the above mentioned facts, thousands of students in many parts of Indonesia have went down to the streets to voice their protests.

Further, on 25 November, the Constitutional Court deleted a provision in the KPK Law No.30/2002 Article 32(1c) and clears the way for Bibit and Chandra to return to their posts at KPK.
Beside that, the Chief of National Police has replaced the Chief of Police Investigation Agency Commissioner General Susno Duadji with Inspector General Ito Sumardi.

Furthermore, SBY's Democrat Party has made a change in policy and supported a motion by a Commission of the House of Representative to conduct an inquiry on the Bank Century case.

For details, please click here,here, here, here,here.

I hope that the above favorable development would always be maintained so that the condition of justice can be improved in the future.