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The maximum penalty for graft convicts like businessmen Benny Tjokrosaputro and Heru Hidayat, former Jiwasraya president director Hendrisman Rahim, former financial director Harry Prasetyo, former finance and investment division head Syahwirma and Joko Hartono Tirto, a director of asset management company PT Maxima Integra, is what the public has demanded. The life sentences are expected strengthen the deterrence that the country badly needs in its fight against corruption.
The Supreme Court has issued a new regulation that encourages judges to sentence those found guilty in high-profile corruption cases that cause massive state losses to life in prison, in a move designed to eliminate years of inconsistent sentencing by the judiciary.
Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung has deplored the criminal case involving Indonesian student Reynhard Sinaga who was found guilty this week of raping more than 130 men while studying in the United Kingdom, saying it tarnished Indonesia’s global reputation.
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's mighty Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February in US federal court on a spate of charges, including smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.
