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