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and outdated basis, which can no longer deal with current and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