Selamat datang semua,
Dengan kesidihan kita dengar kabar baru tentang hukuman mati Myuran Sukumaran dan Andrew Chan, yang pasti akan mati bulan depan.
All avenues of appeal and clemency have been exhausted and it is with indifferent determination that the state of Indonesia will see out its promise to execute the two Australians.
The execution of two reformed young men who spent the past decade in prison will gain nothing yet put everything on the line. A line which is increasingly blurred with political power struggles, moral equivalency debates and insistence on a crippling drug problem.
But everything is not what it seems and the drug problem may not be as pervasive as the deafening moral panic would have it.
When Myuran and Andrew die something else will die with them: a little piece of Indonesia's humanity.
Here's to second chances.
Editor
Please enjoy reading this week's posts:
"Indonesia uses faulty stats on 'drug crisis' to justify death penalty," by Claudia Stoicescu, February 2015.
"Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in next group to face firing squad," by George Roberts, February 2015.
"Hypocrisy, politics and courts play out in death row lottery," by Tim Lindsey, January 2015.
"Indonesia weights in on Jokowi's poor start," by the Jakarta Globe, January 2015.
"Indonesia changes its mind about removing visa on arrival impost on Aussies," by Ross B. Taylor, January 2015.
Extra reading:
Tim Lindsey says there is little hope for Chan and Sukumaran at this late stage. They are caught in the crossfire of politics between Indonesia's two courts as well as the President's need to establish a tough image and stance on drugs.
Jokowi is planning to face up to Megawati and her crew and reject Budi Gunawan's candidacy for the top police job.
A Garuda plane skidded off the runway in Lombok.
Malaysia vacuum ad demonstrates underlying predjudice against Indonesian maids.
Indonesians are increasingly mobilised and civil society savvy; they know the KPK is being undermined and they won't stand for it.
Indonesian children are still languishing in Australian asylum seeker jails.
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