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Letter: Drugs trafficking and corruption
Mon, 09/08/2008 10:53 AM | Reader's Forum
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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Y.santo (not verified) — Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:34am
lady ita mass,
going to the core is not the corruption in the 1st place, but our anti-narco law.
this law does not carry the essence of WHOSOEVER IS CAUGHT WITH 10 grams OF NARCOTICS, gets directly the DEATH SENTENCE.
this law is since ages adopted by THAILAND MALAYSIA SINGAPORE .
corruption may have been ´guilty´ giving birth to this nonsense law, but after that for sure it is the main deterrent of getting improved conditions in fighting narcotics , i.e. change the law as in other ASEAN countries.
so rest assured that some other millions will every year walk this dark dead-end path............
what it entails : our future goes with these generations, for sure further down the drain.........
have a nice day