The exhausting legal journey

The exhausting legal journey

From Media Indonesia

Law enforcement in Indonesia is like a long and exhausting journey with no certainty in sight. Law becomes a commodity most demanded by wealthy and powerful buyers, while its enforcers can be so directed that justice is exchanged for money and pleasure.

The law becomes bland, vague and hard to digest for the rich and powerful but it gets simple, smooth and easily applicable when ordinary people are involved.

It is because law in Indonesia has been founded on a fragile and outdated basis, which can no longer deal with current and increasingly complex issues.

The legal system should be drawn up to meet future demands, at least to make it responsive to present-day challenges. This in turn also needs credible and honest law enforcers who have a clear conscience.

Therefore, prosecutors, police officers and judges should be selectively recruited and appointed without bribery and nepotism. Are all these expectations only utopian ideals?

IHSAN M. RUSLI Jakarta