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View all search results"I want to extend my apologies, first to those who thought that I would be rotting in this place. If anyone thought that I would be physically and socially a corpse, Alhamdulillah that did not happen,” the graft convict said upon his release.
Lawmakers recently passed a new law on the country's correctional system with the hopes of ending prison overcrowding. Activists, however, remain unconvinced, saying the legislation does not solve the underlying problem of the excessive incarceration of drug offenders, who have long dominated the inmate population.
The Jakarta Corruption Court has handed heavier-than-expected sentences to four former directors of state insurer PT Asabri convicted of involvement in a multitrillion-rupiah corruption scandal at the institution, arguing that the prosecutors’ sentencing demands were too light given the severity of the crimes.
The Supreme Court recently eased the requirements for graft convicts to file for remissions and paroles in its recent judicial review ruling, in a move that activists say was another example of further deterioration in the national antigraft campaign.
A police general has allegedly ordered his subordinates to falsify information contained in a travel letter issued to allow graft convict Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra to travel within the country while he was a fugitive.
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