3 Responses to “links for 2006-10-31”

1. indcoup Says:
   October 31st, 2006 at 6:57 pm

   hi rick,

   what was the result of the indonesian best blog award?

   cheers

2. Lin Says:
   November 1st, 2006 at 8:44 am

   Getting Out of Jail Free
   31 October 2006

   Tommy Suharto’s early release from a murder conviction and the weakness of Indonesian justice

   The conditional release of former dictator Suharto’s youngest son, 44-year-old Hutomo ‘Tommy’ Mandala Putra, after serving only five years for ordering the murder of the Supreme Court judge who convicted him of corruption, is a serious blow to those seeking to reform Indonesia’s legal system and an unfortunate signal to international investors of how far the country has to go to rid itself of its graft-ridden past.

   “The problem is that this country has a president but does not have a leader in law enforcement,” said Johnson Pandjaitan, a leading human rights lawyer from the Indonesian Human Rights and Legal Aid Association, a reference to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was swept to power in 2004 on a so-far unfulfilled pledge to unravel Indonesia’s endemic institutionalised corruption…

   rest of the story here: http://asiasentinel.com/index.php

3. Lin Says:
   November 1st, 2006 at 8:53 am

   How ’bout a link to us at Asia Sentinel? We are covering Southeast Asia, China, Korea
   with different correspondents and lots of stories every week.
   It’s a new site and could use the hand up. Thanks.
   Lin Neumann, Senior Editor
   http://asiasentinel.com/

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