The government has promised to carry out its own trials in an effort to avert formation by the United Nations of an international tribunal. But after issuing a damning report one year ago that implicated a score of senior officers and officials, Indonesia has done little to move toward trials. Analysts say it is now highly unlikely that any high ranking figures will face justice there. So we are still waiting. It's certainly an issue of how long we wait until we decide whether that process is credible or not.
Most experts are already convinced that justice in Indonesia is a lost cause.
Certainly in Jakarta the process is totally and utterly stalled. We think people should start thinking again about an international tribunal, simply because the Jakarta process is at such a dead end. But time is probably on Indonesia's side as world attention moves elsewhere. And analysts say the United Nations Security Council is in any case unlikely to create a tribunal, given strong objections by Russia and China, which may fear similar probes into their actions in Chechnya and Tibet. Prosecutors misplace their indictments, the police misplace defendants who are free on bail and cases recess in midstream when foreign judges break for vacations.