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Article: Justice minister's hard line lauded.(World)(Indonesia)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2001
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - The nation's new justice minister has won praise and even a comparison to legendary FBI agent Eliot Ness for his initial efforts to clean up the country's corrupt court system.
The minister, Baharuddin Lopa, has been on the job for just over three months, but the influential newsmagazine Tempo already has compared him to Ness, the incorruptible Prohibition-era federal agent who brought gangster Al Capone to justice.
Amid the dashed hopes of President Abdurrahman Wahid's administration, Mr. Lopa's efforts to establish the supremacy of law stand out.
"Over the past year the appointment of Lopa might be the best thing that ...