The only real surprise about Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Akil Mochtar’s arrest on corruption charges is the political amnesia of those who have joined the chorus of condemnation against him: former MK chiefs who paved the way for graft in the court by curtailing the Judicial Commission’s oversight powers, lawmakers who extend Akil’s
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October 2013
The arrest of Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi) chief justice Akil Mochtar on corruption charges has been described as a ‘national disgrace’ and highlighted the fact that corruption had infiltrated all levels of the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government.
Man: A comic farce! Meanwhile our legal system remains a tragedy!
September 2013
Man: It seems that money is more agung (grand, exalted, high, noble). Chair reads Hakim Agung (Supreme Court justice), step reads selection.
August 2012
Carpet reads: Remissions
Man: It’s not favouritism, or is it favouritism, or favouring the rich, or good conduct?
June 2012
Hand reading ‘Convicted narcotics prisoner’: What about some for us!
May 2011
Novi Christiastuti Adiputri, Jakarta – The Nusantara Marijuana Circle (LGN) held a long-march through the Farmers Monument area in Central Jakarta on Saturday May 7 to commemorate the Global Marijuana March (GMM).
November 2010
Gayus: Happy here, happy there, happy happy everywhere...
August 2010
Kid: Mr, don’t worry about the wealth report... there’s a special going on letters certifying good behaviour... and remissions!
April 2010
Kid: This scandal, that scandal, there’s no end to it... so what’s the broad national development program Sir?
Politician (chair reads “Republic of Clowns”): Build as maaaaany prisons as possible.