This is a comment on an article titled "People can sue govt for poor public services," (the Post, June 24, p. 1)
Article 55 of the law states that: "If public service providers fail to perform their duty, and if because of their negligence members of the public are injured or die as a result, they are liable to criminal punishment."
My question is: Are the judicial arms - Prosecutor's Offices, courts and the police - considered public service providers too? If not, why not? If not, then this bill is a waste of time.
The root of evil - the most problematic part of the government's task - is cleaning up Indonesia's judicial system from the judicial mafia. Clean this up, and straightening out the rest will be more of a possibility.
To let the current judicial system remain as corrupt and devilish as it is now, only means the new law will create another "captive market" for the so-called "law and justice" enforcement agencies.
While everyone is busy suing one another using the new bill, devilish parties are cheering "gimme more, gimme more" (cases) and the House of Representatives keeps playing at making bills that won't make any difference to people's lives because they won't make a bill to stop the corrupt practices, as too many of their own members are playing devil's advocate.
This is a call for the newly elected members of the House of Representatives, especially the ones still "pure"- such as actresses, actors and comedians - to start a crusade to improve this country's image in the international forum, not with the soaring rhetoric, such as that given by a vice presidential candidate, but by tearing down corruption.
Dan
Jakarta
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