Opinion: Western Arrogance in Indonesian Courts
The death penalty has been shown to have little deterrent effect and will always be vulnerable to miscarriages of justice. Likewise, laws against drugs tend to generate more crime in the form of protection rackets, murder and money laundering than they prevent social ills.
That said, the outcry from Australia (and others) about Indonesia’s probable execu…
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