Justice under trial

Justice under trial

The authority of the law and justice is once again under trial
-- this time by the case of Marsinah, the female worker who was
brutally killed three years ago, after leading protest actions
against a company in Sidoarjo, East Java, where she was working.

Nine key witnesses, who were pronounced guilty of the crime by
the Court of Justice, were exonerated by the Supreme Court, which
means that the Court of Justice had punished innocent people. So,
it is the duty of the police and prosecutors to find Marsinah's
real killer(s).

The Marsinah case is baffling, indeed. Everyone is clamoring
for a thorough re-investigation of the case and the police and
prosecutors are at a loss about where to begin, while actually
the case is not a complicated one. A number of basic clues are
already available, right under our noses. The sad thing is that
they were incorrectly comprehended by the police and prosecutors.

Perhaps, however, it is not right to question the persistence
of the police and prosecutors in the case of Marsinah. Who knows,
those who were exonerated by the Supreme Court might really be
guilty. The problem is that the Supreme Court, as the highest
custodian of justice, has been issuing so many controversial
decrees lately.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta