Your comments on the discovery of a convicted corruptor occupying a prison cell decked out like a hotel room amid the rundown facilities afforded to other prisoners.
Yet all that money still can't buy Artalyta a human-looking pair of eyebrows.
Ruby
Jakarta
So, money really talks loudly.
Sheldon Archer
Probolinggo
In the United States, we call the special treatment for high-profile and wealthy prisoners "Club Fed". Imprisoned doctors, lawyers, judges, and wealthy prisoners are allowed to have minimum security, golf courses, classes, libraries and recreational facilities only dreamed about by regular federal prisoners.
Nancy Swan
The United States
I find the move by the minister to suspend the chief warden totally inappropriate because the minister has officials who should have been making regular inspections of all the institutions and would have been aware of the accommodation structure and conditions for the inmates.
Pentti Paavola
Sydney
Church attacks in Malaysia
Your comments on the religious dispute in which Malaysian Muslims attacked four churches, sparked by the High Court's verdict allowing Christians to use word "Allah" for their God.
The word "Allah" is not for the proprietary use of Malaysian Muslim, it's not derived from a Malay word at all but from an Arabic word. If Arabians do not have any objections, then why are Malaysians making a big deal out of it? I smell that something is going on with the Malaysian elite in this matter. Can any nation or religion claim to own Allah (God)? God must be laughing up there.
Alvin Kawilarang
Jakarta
I see this problem as the most ridiculous inter-religion problem I've ever met in my life. God must be crying that people are confronting each other because of His name.
Well, if the word "Allah" cannot be used for Christians then, perhaps some people also think that Christians in Malay or Indonesian speaking countries can't use all borrowed words from Arabic too, like "Alkitab", "Salam", etc.
I hope the Christians will not forbid Muslims to use Latin in biology class, or even forbid Muslims to use any forms of Christian names like James, Andrew, Johnny, Sisca, Steve, and so on and so forth.
Angga
Yogyakarta
The substitution word, from "Tuhan" to "Allah", by Christians in Malaysia has been going on since the year 1920 and is based on Islamic law, so that it does not matter.
Abdul Rahim
Tangerang, Banten
While the world still has difficulties in addressing their god(s); we Indonesians are fortunate for having adhered to the "believe in God the Divine Omnipotent", the very first article of the Pancasila. In this way, we have no problem in addressing our God; for there is but one God.
Moeljono Adikoesoemoe
Jakarta
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