Put your finger over the keyboard, then type the word “flip” on the search engines (google, yahoo, etc.), then at least have two news media ¬-one national, one international media about the ¬-boys, AAL, 15-year-old who faced a sentence of five years because it has picked up “slippers” that was not hers.

Events that occurred in Palu, Central Sulawesi, this has become a staple news in almost all the national mainstream media, both print and electronic. The more “excited” again, the incident has become headline news in several international media. Call it, for example, the BBC, Dailynews, CBSNews, which then capture the incident “embarrassing” that the narrative is almost the same, that we (the people of Indonesia) have found a new symbol of injustice: sandals.

Sandals and injustice

Sandals are in their language called flip-flops are the footwear that cost less than $3. Cheap goods and can be found in every culture-even the most backward-in the world today. Goods are growing rapidly in the hands of the Romans 600 BC, which later became massive when farmers leave their fields to work in factories during the industrial revolution in England, now in Indonesia (they said) suddenly became a symbol of the new manifest injustice.

Here, tastes, their language was very slicing conscience, and a great slap, that seems to injustice in this country is so massive, systemic, so it’s really a good “bargain” that are appropriately symbolized by cultural products most primitive though.

Imagine, more easily found injustice in this country. In the middle row of the Bank Century case-corruption; Nazarudin; Nunun of forgetfulness-which until this moment have not been able to be decided one by one based on the principles of justice, it states became lose conscience and feelings, to behave as if “biased” and transformed into a “goddess of justice” which seems to have lost “scales” the full rationality. State becomes angry and violent in simple matters theft chocolate, bananas, plates, slippers, etc. -but otherwise easy to lose heart when faced with major corruption cases that have been definitely claimed the future happiness of the nation’s children, as AAL the hammer. Landslide was their language, “it’s unfair That the corrupt officials are treated leniently by the courts, while Those without money or influence can receive severe sentences”, hit right in front of us all.

Logic (the law) that “out of line”

As is known to have revealed a in trial fact, that the sandals are imposed AAL does not belong to the police. That is, the sandals are the property of another person who knows whom. This fact, then, gave birth to the debate. Some legal experts saw that the sandals were not dispossessed, and the findings can be categorized as goods, not the stolen goods as charged.

What is interesting is the opinion of a judge “the great” on a TV station over the interpretation of Article 362 of the Criminal Code on ordinary theft. The Court insisted that the sandals that can still be viewed as stolen property from the owner named “others”. Conception of ownership “others” that can then be used as a justification that AAL can still be regarded as “thieves” are faced with demands that it needs five years in prison, for having taken part or all of the goods that are not right.

If you do have to follow the logic of the great, then how do we measure the decision of cases of corruption which has harmed the rights that clearly does not belong to “others”, but belongs to the people like the AAL? How is the decision (only) two years imposed on a corrupt person can we put in our healthy logic, is it obviously has caused billions of dollars of loss?

In principle, the logic of “great” it can not be blamed. However, the logic is the stuff that can “dance” in the broadest continuum pendulums. Logic can only “out of line” and not able to divide what is right and wrong. Also, they can take a leap of logic that are out of control and no longer know where the “road home”. If it is such, then we also can not blame the logic of a teacher in Jakarta in assessing cases of AAL through the expression, “this is insane”. An expression that increasingly aware that the legal tools we have implemented a very chaotic and truly “crazy”.