Indonesian govt ‘too lenient’ in granting 23 graft convicts parole, activists say

Pinangki Sirna Malasari has a conversation after a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Sept. 23, 2020. Pinangki walked free on Sept. 5, 2022, after just a year in prison on a bribery conviction, having successfully appealed to reduce her 10-year sentence to just four years. She was granted parole by the Law and Human Rights Ministry. - Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA, Sept 11 (Jakarta Post/ANN): The Indonesian government has been accused of being soft on corruption after the Law and Human Rights Ministry granted parole to nearly two dozen graft convicts this week, including a former public prosecutor who will walk free after just a year in prison despite an initial 10-year sentence.

On Tuesday, the ministry granted parole to 23 graft convicts, sparking outrage from anticorruption activists and even the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) itself, which had conducted many of the investigations that led to the convictions.