Well, we survived Easter - bit of an anti-climax if you
ask me, but then I’ve been listening to argy-bargy on
Indonesian Law; it is hard to disagree that what they
claim’s a contemporary legal process would be seen
as ‘anarchic’ anywhere else - which it is, and despite
eruditely pointing it out there’s an inane stonewall of
non-comprehensive rectitude - which is an attitude-
Indonesia we’ve had to live with or go bite th’ bullet
At least for two convicted Australian drug smugglers
there’s irony in thus facing a firing squad; guilty of a
‘petty’ naivety rather than a malignant crime against
humanity and reformed out of all recognition to their
former selves, they’re victims of malaise so notably
Indonesian in origin its ignored by its own Judiciary
Clemency isn’t a signal of weakness - it means the
idea of humanity comes first; to refuse to grant it in
a humane case redefines retrogressiveness as the
way of normal ‘Indonesian behaviour’ under media
scrutiny; they cannot give a hint to whom and what
their baroque view of sovereignty really means
© 7 April 2015, I. D. Carswell
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