[645] Of 20 years for drugs, 20 months for killing 200 people

Indonesia, while mocking justice, is fast becoming a nation that runs on farcical judiciary.

Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years behind bars for attempting to smuggle marijuana into the country while another Australian Michelle Leslie faces the possibility of maximum 15 years in jail for ecstasy. Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric who has been found guilty of conspiring in the 2002 Bali attack which killed more than 200 people on the other hand received merely three years of jail time – that penalty has been reduced to mere 20 months.

Doing drugs is bad and I at least am willing to agree to that. It however is certainly no worse than murder. But no, no – the Indonesian authority has differing view.

Indonesian Justice Minister Hamid Awaluddin is reported of saying that the psychopath fundamentalist and murderer Abu Bakar Bashir is eligible for further lessening in conjunction of the upcoming Eid. This is absolutely absurd and distastefully dishonors victims of the Bali bombing.

If the Indonesian authority decides to shorten the killer cleric’s sentence soon, they might as well release him and supply all the explosives he needs for future ops.

Or maybe, this is Indonesia’s idea of Halloween.