Show me justice, Indonesia

The Schapelle Corby drug smuggling case has become an issue to discuss nationwide or may be worldwide. The verdict of 20 years jail sentence for an Australian in Indonesian jail is the first time in history. Many things have been brought up to talk about since the verdict on last Friday. Every radio channel, television channel, every Aussie has been following the case for the past 8 months. Even the Prime Minister himself also made some comment on it. 20 years of jail sentence to a person for guilty of carrying 4.1 kilograms of drug into Indonesia… is it too harsh? or it is too lenient? Just right? In my opinion, if she is really guilty I think the verdict is fair enough or may be a bit too lenient because drugs really torn the society. If she is innocent then obviously it is harsh rite.

However, I believe she is innocent and I really feel for her. For me, a 27 years old student with a crystal clear history get caught at the Bali airport for carrying 4.1 kilograms of drugs is a bit astonish. It can be the baggage handlers or whoever but I don’t think is her. When one of the officer wanted to open her bag she did said “I have some…”. This make the judge doubt about her innocent and that was the only most solid ‘evident’ that they got to charge her. But actually she hadn’t finished the sentence. It can be “I have some food”, “I have some clothes”, “I have some whatever…”.

What made me even more furious was in Indonesia, you are guilty and you have to prove yourself innocent. I suppose that the law should be the other way round where you are innocent and the opposition must prove that you are guilty. Furthermore, there isn’t any jury in the court and the judges made all the decision. When Corby’s defending team made a request to check the fingerprints on the drug bags, the request was turned down by the court. And yet, the Bali bombing suspect was just sentence to 4 years jail, surprise??? From here, I doubt there is any justice in this Corby case.

This obsession can happen to anyone of us. So please lock all your luggage and bags when you are travelling. When any of the officer wants to open your bag, if you are clean and innocent just let them open. Let’s pray for this young lady to succeed her appeal.

What is happenning to me

I was in bad mood recently. Did badly in the previous few quizzes. What happened to me? Have to work harder now. Strictly studying.