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Posted by mcdamas in June 29th, 2008

The boisterous talk about bribery involving the high ranked prosecutors at General Attorney Office with Artalyta Suryani as the leading star which is at present being on trial is actually a serial of comedy in Indonesia’s indecent law enforcement. Have you ever heard that the law is respected and held up in this country?

You can simply see how policemen illegally get money from (not to say blackmail) riders or drivers on the streets and at their office, how citizens are forced to bribe when dealing with identity card, passport, tax pay, driving license, marriage certificate, business permit, or building a house. No bribery, no service. So, the disclosure of collusion between Artalyta Suryani with Kemas Yahya and Urip Tri Gunawan (the prosecutors) is nothing to wonder.

Artalyta Suryani who is accused to have bribed US$605,000 to the prosecutors is actually not guilty. She bribed because she understood how to deal with law in this country. She and all those who do bribing are actually enacting what the government has educated or modeled them to do. It is the government that has conditioned people to violate the law. As a matter of fact, it is something odd if you do not bribe when you want to have your stuff served. No choice or you will be the laughing-stock.

People really live in a dilemmatic situation. Department of Religious Affairs which is established to hold up moral values, good conducts and virtues, in fact, ranks the first in the corruption rate index. National Education Department established to develop the quality human resource of this country ranks the second. Finance Department, Supreme Court, Police Department, General Attorney, and all other departments have become home to corruptors. There is no room at all to avoid bribery or corruption. No matter who you are; if you want your business to be done smoothly, your only key to it is money. Then, it is not strange to find luxurious cars driven by civil servants, mansions dwelled by government officials, or bourgeois lifestyle adopted by them, their sons and daughters.

In short, the case involving Artalyta Suryani should therefore not be solely seen as her guilt. It is the officials on whom all the guilt must be blamed since it is them who let bribery occurs. Therefore, the judge must free Artalyta from any accusation but push the General Attorney and all officials involved in the case to resign. That is how the law has to be enforced, not abused.