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Comments on other issues: Gayus isolated after illegal jaunt
Outside the bars: A journalist shows a picture of graft convict Gayus Tambunan having lunch at a Jakarta restaurant despite his 30-year prison term
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Outside the bars: A journalist shows a picture of graft convict Gayus Tambunan having lunch at a Jakarta restaurant despite his 30-year prison term. The former tax officer is known for making illegal incursions while serving time behind bars.(Antara/Agus Bebeng) (Antara/Agus Bebeng)
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span class="inline inline-center">Outside the bars: A journalist shows a picture of graft convict Gayus Tambunan having lunch at a Jakarta restaurant despite his 30-year prison term. The former tax officer is known for making illegal incursions while serving time behind bars.(Antara/Agus Bebeng)
Former tax official and graft convict Gayus H. Tambunan has again exposed the flaws of the country's penitentiary system after he was spotted having lunch at a Jakarta restaurant while he was supposed to be serving his sentence in Sukamiskin Penitentiary in Bandung, West Java. The Law and Human Rights Ministry confirmed on Monday that the notoriously elusive inmate, who has reportedly made several illegal excursions while behind bars, had meals with two women in Jakarta on Sept. 9. A photograph of him and the two women went viral on the Internet after a Facebook account named 'Baskoro Endrawan' posted the lunch picture on Sept. 19.
Your comments:
I do believe it's time for the prisons to lock the doors. This revolving open door for cash has been going on long enough. Here's a case where the prisoner can afford to shell out big dollars to come and go as he pleases. An investigation should be opened to look into how he still has that kind of money available to him.
This is considered an escape from prison and should be dealt that way with solitary confinement and loss of all privileges. It's time to have officials run the prisons and not the criminals. Indonesia's prison system is the laughing stock of the international prison system as well as the people who run supposedly run them.
XSimaging
It is truly amazing that Indonesia has not moved on from the days when Tommy Soeharto who was supposed to be in prison but was able to do what he liked.
Robert J. Cochrane
Well, he previously attended that tennis match in Bali, so I guess the money he paid to the warden was not much since he was only able to go to a restaurant.
Simba
Well, obviously Gayus still has some valuables stashed away to buy himself a couple of 'free' days.
By the way, just love how his beloved wife, who enjoyed his riches in the past, didn't even show up for work as a civil servant.
Charles Marks
There is no justice in this country. It's all about money. As the rest of the world advances, this country is sinking morally.
Willo
The rule of law in Indonesia still seems to be quite flexible. Consistency is the key for all governments and their departments no matter what. Only then can the Indonesian government and its departments gain the respect of the people and the rest of the world.
TB
