This is a response to an article titledforeign drug convicts are on deathrow," (thejakartapost.com, Aug. 30).
The core of this problem is not the drug traffickers, but the corruption which is omnipresent in Indonesia.
Corruption is the root of this illegality, as is the case with many other offences. Such individuals would not risk hanging if they didn't value their chances of getting away with the crime they are committing.
Why are such cases more limited in other countries such as Singapore?
Maybe when the Indonesian law enforcement agencies at all levels are honestly and objectivelythen drug trafficking, human smuggling, taking bribes instead of applying fines, issuing documents for the transport of illegal timber, minerals, oil, etc... will not be the everyday norm.
But as long as corrupt police officers (which are not few), at all levels, are frequenting at karaoke and nightclubs around the country mixing themselves more with activities and people of dubious nature rather than carrying out the jobs they are paid to do, then Indonesia remains very, very, very far from being "clean" or "democratic."
ITA MASS
Jakarta
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