The guiding principle seems to be:
If you want to commit a crime, make sure it is worthy your time in jail.
No point stealing an onion when you can embezzle 1.5 billion rupiah,
when the difference is only 3 months.
The law of economics of scale really works in the indonesian
legal system, except that it does not fall after the optimal level.
No wonder Indonesians are still disillusioned with the legal system.
I certainly do not blame them for such sentiments.
Yet, it is hard to imagine that there might a fundamental reform
to the legal system with all the infighting and jostling of political
interests within the DPR and between the various branches of the
political system.
Interesting fact of the day:
- Indonesia still uses some Dutch legal laws dating back to the
colonial era where the maximum imprisonment sentence is only
20 years. That includes the defamation law which SBY recently used
when he sued former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives
Zaenal Ma'arif.
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