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arch 30, p1

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has called on the South Jakarta District Court to rearrange the schedules for six pretrial cases that challenge the antigraft body'€™s decision on the plaintiffs'€™ suspect status for six separate cases.

Overwhelmed with the congested schedule of hearings that will swamp KPK lawyers over the next two weeks, its legal team asked the court for more time to prepare.

Your comments:

Does anyone know why all these cases are only processed at the South Jakarta Court? Do they have some particular mandate on such things, or are they just dependably corrupt?

Loro Blonyo

Allow me to look into my crystal ball. All six cases will be thrown out without exception and the clean Indonesian judges involved can now retire knowing they'€™ve done a good job. I should start betting on it. I wonder if I can find anyone who'€™s putting their money on the other outcome?

Rendang

We can thank judge Sarpin, President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo and his government for allowing this mess to happen and smile at the President'€™s promise to seriously fight corruption.

At least President Jokowi has a Filipino mule in her 20s along with a bunch of foreign drug traffickers to slaughter in front of a firing squad to prove to his people that he is a real leader.

Benam

Jokowi is a parody of a true leader. The sad thing is he had a powerful mandate to take on the establishment. He had 73 million voters behind him who voted for a clean start. He could have used that mandate to instigate real change. Instead, he rendered the KPK to a shadow of its former self and then made some useless speeches about getting tough on corruption. It'€™s a really sad outcome for this country.

For 10 years, politicians were somewhat afraid of the KPK and now Jokowi has weakened and undermined it in a few short months.

These corrupt politicians have looted, robbed, cheated and lied, and all they have to do now is go to a corrupt court, pay some bribes and make off with the stolen loot.

Jokowi'€™s weakness on corruption is a green light to corrupt public servants to start ramping up their embezzlement, mark-ups and ghost budgets. Indonesia is in real trouble with such a weakling in charge.

Benny

The everyday Indonesian really does not care. They shrug their shoulders and get on with scraping a living. The ones who aren'€™t scraping by don'€™t want to change the status quo.

Look at the lack of support Jakarta Governor Basuki '€œAhok'€ Tjahaja Purnama gets from Jakartans. They are more concerned about his rudeness than fighting corruption. The outrage of expats will not change a thing here, unless it relates to big business getting involved, but don'€™t think that will have anything to do with fighting corruption or a twisted legal system.

Frankly, as an expat I know said, '€œIt'€™s their country, let them get on with it'€ and I am starting to come round to that view as I, for one, am tired of being outraged and I now quietly observe with my cynical, satirical, mind-set well in place. Do not expect this country to be any more than it is '€” underdeveloped and unthinking. Then you will never be disappointed.

S. Humor