AGAIN ABOUT PAK HARTO

Soeharto’s health condition has reportedly worsened over these past few days. This is saddening since he is hospitalized at Pertamina Central Hospital (RSPP) on January 4, 2008. A flock of Indonesian elites have come to see him in the hospital, and many others pray for his health. But, the only thing that remains in question is how the government resolves his legal case before Almighty God calls him back? In this case, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has offered an out of court settlement to the Seoharto family as a “win-win solution” to Pak Harto’s corruption case. However, the family rejects the offer. Like majority of Indonesians, I have no enough capacity to understand the complexity of legal process with its all consequences. Of course, in a democratic state, everybody is equal before the law. This notion is not debatable. In this case, Pak Harto, who has been living with his desperate sickness since 1999, has indeed respected his country’s supremacy of law. Although he has never shown up personally in the court room to be questioned by a panel judge and prosecutor as in the normal procedures, his respect to Indonesia’s legal system is undeniable. There must be a solution to this matter. Don’t let Pak Harto leaves us forever with this desperate condition owing to his unresolved legal case. We don’t know when his final day comes. The soul of every creature in the universe is in the hands of God, the Creator. But the final day of his and also ours must come someday. I join the prayer of many Indonesians for him. May Allah Subhana Wa Ta’ala give His mercy to Pak Harto for the good deeds and forgive him for the mistakes as human he had made in his 86 years of life.