Upholding the law

From Media Indonesia

The country's commitment to uphold the law is like an endless journey, exhaustive and without certainty. The law has become a commodity which is in great demand, and can be traded according to the interests of the buyers who have money and power.

The practitioners of the law are mere robots who can be managed, who would pawn justice and conscience for wealth and worldly pleasures.

The law has become dull and obscure, difficult to digest when faced with wealthy, powerful and influential personalities, but simple and easily settled when it concerns the common, helpless people.

How can it work that way? The answer is that the law is based on a fragile foundation which is already outdated so that it can no longer respond to the increasingly complex, current issues.

IHSAN M RUSLI Jakarta