Intervention in law enforcement

Intervention in law enforcement

From Media Indonesia

As Indonesia is a law-based state, Indonesians long to witness
the implementation of proper legal enforcement in this country,
where, today, the law applies only to the poor but not to the
well-to-do, for whom the law is a commodity that can be traded.

There are signs, however, that law enforcement agencies are
now improving their image. They have brought to the court not
only petty criminals but also important people allegedly involved
in corruption, such as a former secretary of state and incumbent
House speaker, a deputy speaker of the People's Consultative
Assembly, the incumbent Bank Indonesia governor and a number of
former New Order ministers. Even a lawyer has been detained for
alleged wrongdoing.

Thumbs up to the law enforcement bodies' efforts to apply the
law strictly to the letter. However, we are sad to see that there
are some of us who still try to prevent law enforcement agencies
from upholding the law, for example in the detention of lawyer
Elza Syarief and commander of Laskar Jihad Ja'far Umar Thalib.
Why don't we just let the law enforcement agencies do their job?
The courts will decide whether to punish or exonerate them.

Let's all support law enforcement agencies in their effort to
enforce the law.

POPO SOETANTO

Bekasi, West Java