“For some, the new Myanmar will in fact prove a cautionary tale, filled with woe, gloom and dire futures”.
If Thailand is taken for a model in anyway this may be the future. The ethnic minority situation in Thailand is abysmal, and the migrant situation. The scale and diversity of ethnic populations in Burma is enormous and the wrongs of the past are unlikely to be turned around. I appreciate your positive spin on the political landscape in Burma but the seemingly intractable negatives like Rohingya and Muslims are getting the headlines at the moment.
It’s about time the Australian Government started to get tough on the Indonesian recalcitrant Government and cut all foreign aid and trade to that country and show that we mean business and that we won’t stand for them thumbing their noses at us. They are two faced, they shoot our citizens but do everything to save their own people on death row in other countries. PLACE A TRAVEL BAN AND BOYCOTT BALI and see how they like it! We must also send our troops into East Papua New Guinea and drive out the murderous Indonesian military who are killing the West Papuans and creating genocide. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT YOU MUST ACT NOW!
We gave Indonesian $1 billion for that terrible tsunami!
We give Indonesia $600 million per year in foreign aid.
We gave Indonesia $500 million to upgrade their schools!
We gave Indonesia C-130 Hercules planes as a gift!
We gave Indonesia patrol boats as gifts.
We gave Indonesia $750 million to buy warships from Turkey and the Dutch.
We gave Indonesia $1.1 billion order for submarines from South Korea.
We gave Indonesia $470 million for six Russian made fighter bombers.
We gave Indonesia $750 million for 24 refurbished US F-16 fighter jets.
We gave Indonesia $120 million for Russian tanks.
We gave Indonesia $500 million investment in a missile factory to build anti-ship capabilities.
Add to the list the development of an artillery rocket system to build 1000 separate units.
How much more do we need to give them!
Other Countries in our Region go with far less because we continue to support Indonesia.
All we did was to ask for Indonesia to show mercy to Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan noting their rehabilitation which fell on deaf ears and they were gunned down in a most cruel and barbaric way and were left to die in absolute agony for 27 minutes before they were pronounced dead.
They maybe were criminals in their justice system who were young and foolish and made a mistake, but they are our people! They were not murders!
Indonesia is a barbaric country to execute them! It seems that they were not listening to our voices.
Indonesia needs to show Australia respect !
They were determined to execute these 2 young Australians in spite of the Australian Government’s pleas!
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten needed to go together and visited President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo of Indonesia and tell him in no uncertain terms that if he executed these 2 young rehabilitated Australians, all bets would be off! Everything would be off the table! Whoever authorised all this was crawling up the Indonesian Government’s arses to stay friendly so that the Indonesians wouldn’t invade our country, NOW IT IS ALL OUT WARFARE.
Our foreign aid should cease immediately, WE SHOULD PUT A TRAVEL BAN ON BALI and Australians should boycott Indonesia! WE SHOULD ALSO SEND OUR TROOPS INTO EAST PAPUA AND DRIVE OUT THE INDONESIAN MILITARY WHO ARE CREATING TERRIBLE MASS MURDER AND GENOCIDE!
#boycottindonesia#
James. Widodo’s Papua policy is driven by economic development not security or human rights.
Apart from domestic investment, he wants to attract largescale foreign investment so needs to show Papua is open for business. Hence, he’s treating an abnormal situation as normal and appealing directly to citizens, both Adat and settler society, over the heads of TNI, the pro OTSUS elites, and the separatist leadership[s]. The latter stand to lose the most should Widodo succeed in normalising Papua and can be expected to resist by attempting to demonstrate they hold a veto over development. Violence is one way. there are others. There’s been almost no development in Jayapura since Gus Dur was President. Most available land in the City has been claimed for Adat and construction prevented. A friend, third gen Papuan born from an Ambonese family, still has to fend off Adat neighbours claiming to own his land and house and demanding payment. Each payment begets the next demand. In such ways does the OPM continue to alienate people from it’s cause.
The sentence: “Such an agreement will sire hundreds of Ph.D’s snd give life to 10,000 analytical thrusts” says more about the “State of the Academy in Western Universities” than about the “State in Burma (or Mranma)”.
Concentrate on Burma ? Because of Islamic hypocrisy aided and abetted by Leftist claptrap. The question should be asked of Dhaka how they are going to contribute to Rohingya livelihoods, considering that the Rohingya are nothing but Bangladeshis in false Burmese clothing. But since so many tears are shed for these poor Bangladeshis, while Bashar Assad slaughters 250,000 Muslim Syrians, we might as well ask why the always voluble Dr Mahathir rants and raves about persecution of Muslims, and yet how many Rohingya has Malaysia actually taken ? Hardly any. Because they do not LOOK MALAY ENOUGH, irrespective of being Muslim. That’s the Ummah for you; always “looking after their own”……or not.
It is slightly surprising (or rather not surprising at all) that the conference does not include any expert on either Myanmar, Bangladesh or the Rohingya. It just follows the common pattern that some wise old men tell others what they are supposed to do. If this is the understanding of human rights, I think some modifications are required.
Sadly this article with it croc tear serve to polarize the Kala and none Kala within Myanmar.
Croc tear?
Hi lighting the typical one side western inspire concept of atrocities without even mention the Alqueda inspired atrocities within Myanmar and just across the border.
The biggest evidence of croc tear is failure to give any solution that will uniquely suit Myanmar than condemning what has already evolved within Myanmar govt. control.
Does Dr N. Hudson-Rodd truly believe that the problem is exclusively the responsibility of Myanmar but nothing to do with Bangladesh, OAS and Malaysia/ Indonesia? politics?
Kala within Myanmar have the basic rights just as all Kala in Maulamyain, Yangon , Mandalay and beyond.
AS it is now most Kala in Yakhine already prosper just like the WA/Chinese within border region.
The Boatloads of refugee and the camp are the result of the West policy and hypocrisy.
DAASK is another perfect example. Used now abused for not falling inline due to on the ground realities within Myanmar.
If Dr N. H-R is really serious about the Kala/ Rohingyas future, come with a carrot instead of only stick.
As it is there are much more urgent matter to deal with within Myanmar than the cry wolf atttention.
Muslims have always and everywhere indulged in trafficking reducing to slavery or otherwise making money out of their own – even more out of “infidels”. It Muslim Lybian traffickers who are sending boatloads of African Muslims at sea in the Mediterranea and drowning non-Muslims when overloaded. Bengal, Malaysia and Indonesia do not either feel any compassion towards their Muslim brethen. And the Thai traffickers of Rohingya are Southern Muslim Thais. Why concentrate fire on Burma ?
Blanket generalizations about how all westerners argue. You clearly think an Australian and a Swede argue the same way. Talk of “Half-bred” Indonesianists — the term repeated. Use of the phrase “Tourette-like” symptoms.
Sorry, Mr. Martinus, but if you want to show “cultural competence,” you have to do better.
Mahathir bin Mohammad is hardly an iconic figure and has hypocritically traded with the Myanmar government, while it whines about the Rohingya, Mahathir and Malaysia do not care about the Rohingya except as a wedge Islamic issue to push Islamic causes via the OIC. Malaysia has allowed thousands of Rohingya to die on boats and in Malaysia’s northern border regions. Mahathir wishes to “Palestinise” the Rohingya issue for his own inflated ego and global posterity only, and nothing more.
I suspect the global apathy towards the plight of the Rohingya is partly due to them being Muslims. We usually read media reports of minorities being abused and killed in Muslim majority countries (eg. Yazidis, Coptics, Christians, Baha’i). In Myanmar, the situation is reversed with Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingya. I wouldn’t be surprised if segments of the global public perceive this as “retribution” for atrocities committed by Muslim countries and prefer to overlook the events in Myanmar.
Also, the image of Buddhism is usually that of peace, meditation and quiet reverence (despite the behaviour of monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka). It also helps the Myanmar government that the Rohingya are virtually indistinguishable from Bangladeshis unlike other Burmese races. Therefore, it is much easier to vilify the Rohingya as an “infection” that has to be stamped out.
John and David are correct to underscore what is at stake in enforcing Thainess upon diverse ethnic groups with multiple identities, namely a violent imposition denying the right to ones different culture, language and way of being a human. Not the Thai way or the highway
Let it be true identity, because we cannot distinguish them with Bangladeshi. I strongly suggest for human rights implementation in Myanmar either Rohinya or Bengali.
Answer to Mango Man. The police force which tipped off the Indonesian police about the Bali 9 drug smugglers was the Australian Federal police who now have blood on their hands after the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Australia with six other Indonesian Inmates on death row.
Whatever the plight of the Rohinggyas, to have Mahathir Mohamad as a Human Rights Champion at a conference concerned with their welfare does not seem to me an altogether happy choice!
Just a few quick questions before we get into this. Have you watched the videos? Do you know what is happening at the “reconciliation” seminars? Have you been following Prachatai.com recently (say, the past year)?
I’ll read through all of the resources you provided to understand why the selection of TML was controversial. But yes, you provide a very different take from those that I have read.
I agree with you that “…Australian media and political elites are having serious trouble engaging with Indonesia…”
I think no one disagrees with you or Pierre on that. In fact there are many academics in Australia who are arguing precisely for more investment in this area (see the White paper on Australia in the Asian Century and the attendant arguments made by academics).
But I think Pierre’s analysis appears incomplete at best or dishonest at worst; and has detracted the debate from a very good point that he makes i.e how should Australia engage with Indonesia (for that matter other Asian countries) achieving the right balance without sacrificing its core ideals.
Also, just wondering (another digression) if Indonesia as a member of G20 and BRICS was demonstrating leadership in the manner it handled the execution.
As the economic pie grow to it eventual unique size, the limitations to equity are evident.
1) Continuing ethnic unrest
2) Internal inherent problems.
1) Will give the Military the dominant share of everything for years to come. As witness now with the flush of cash and less restraint ultimate escalation b/f a controlled calmer ethnic areas. The potential for instability and a return to dictatorial government is a foreboding shadows. The # of conflicts and future real potential conflicts will require an unprecedented solutions.
2) First and foremost is the scourge of “graft”. In the west lobbying and campaigning contribution has legitimize/neutralize ‘Graft”. In ASEAN countries only Singapore has managed to bring this scourge to a reasonable level. What happen in Myanmar and how this scourge is handle will determine the permanence of changes now and in the future.
1. A very loaded direct question. From what I’ve read, PERADI never made any such explicit allegation of “corruption” against Todung because that would exceed their actually more limited role in regulating the profession pursuant to UU No. 18/2003, the Indonesian Advocates’ Code of Ethics (KEAI), and related instruments. Many common views hold that such semantics are hair-splitting anyway, but the distinctions are still important in law.
The above point is also important when comparing Todung’s approach to the Law and towards the Indonesian legal profession’s regulators in PERADI. Whereas PERADI restricts itself to its role as set by statute and Constitutional Court declaration, Todung seems to assert continually an assumed right to not only disregard PERADI but to override it by challenging its statutory authority. I have never seen any disclaimer or correction by Todung in his many appearances and public statements, not only with the Chan-Sukumaran cases but also with Chevron, for example, where reported as “lawyer”, etc., despite his official permanent disbarment since 2008.
2. Basically, PERADI found Todung to have asserted first in 2002, while auditing Salim Group for the Government – and receiving Government payment for those services – that Salim Group HAD violated the Master of Settlement and Acquisition Agreement (MSAA) of 21 Sept 1998 around claimed assets in sale/liquidation, and HAD caused loss to the State. PERADI then found Todung to have later asserted in 2006, while acting for Salim Group in a litigation case over the same matter of asset sale/liquidation that Salim Group HAD NOT violated the MSAA of 21 Sept 1998 and HAD NOT caused loss to the State.
The case actually seems a modern Asian demonstration of Socrates’ ancient warnings, bequeathed to us by Plato, in which the classical philosopher-logician denounces as base and decadent those sophists who would sell their advocacy regardless of what they knew to be the actual facts of a dispute.
Your list of English language reading is interesting for what it omits, which is almost the entire specific material of consideration and judgement in PERADI’s hearing over Todung’s alleged transgressions. The piece on Hotman seems nothing more than journalistic mockery-cum-freak-story; the others cite general sunset/limitation for other-matter engagement with the case’s parties, and a letter by a department official, both of which were obviously not essential, decisive or even relevant facts for consideration.
Your English-language commentary links would prove Pierre Marthinus’ more basic point that Australian media and political elites are having serious trouble engaging with Indonesia.
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Scrambling to draw lessons
“For some, the new Myanmar will in fact prove a cautionary tale, filled with woe, gloom and dire futures”.
If Thailand is taken for a model in anyway this may be the future. The ethnic minority situation in Thailand is abysmal, and the migrant situation. The scale and diversity of ethnic populations in Burma is enormous and the wrongs of the past are unlikely to be turned around. I appreciate your positive spin on the political landscape in Burma but the seemingly intractable negatives like Rohingya and Muslims are getting the headlines at the moment.
The power of redemption
It’s about time the Australian Government started to get tough on the Indonesian recalcitrant Government and cut all foreign aid and trade to that country and show that we mean business and that we won’t stand for them thumbing their noses at us. They are two faced, they shoot our citizens but do everything to save their own people on death row in other countries. PLACE A TRAVEL BAN AND BOYCOTT BALI and see how they like it! We must also send our troops into East Papua New Guinea and drive out the murderous Indonesian military who are killing the West Papuans and creating genocide. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT YOU MUST ACT NOW!
We gave Indonesian $1 billion for that terrible tsunami!
We give Indonesia $600 million per year in foreign aid.
We gave Indonesia $500 million to upgrade their schools!
We gave Indonesia C-130 Hercules planes as a gift!
We gave Indonesia patrol boats as gifts.
We gave Indonesia $750 million to buy warships from Turkey and the Dutch.
We gave Indonesia $1.1 billion order for submarines from South Korea.
We gave Indonesia $470 million for six Russian made fighter bombers.
We gave Indonesia $750 million for 24 refurbished US F-16 fighter jets.
We gave Indonesia $120 million for Russian tanks.
We gave Indonesia $500 million investment in a missile factory to build anti-ship capabilities.
Add to the list the development of an artillery rocket system to build 1000 separate units.
How much more do we need to give them!
Other Countries in our Region go with far less because we continue to support Indonesia.
All we did was to ask for Indonesia to show mercy to Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan noting their rehabilitation which fell on deaf ears and they were gunned down in a most cruel and barbaric way and were left to die in absolute agony for 27 minutes before they were pronounced dead.
They maybe were criminals in their justice system who were young and foolish and made a mistake, but they are our people! They were not murders!
Indonesia is a barbaric country to execute them! It seems that they were not listening to our voices.
Indonesia needs to show Australia respect !
They were determined to execute these 2 young Australians in spite of the Australian Government’s pleas!
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten needed to go together and visited President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo of Indonesia and tell him in no uncertain terms that if he executed these 2 young rehabilitated Australians, all bets would be off! Everything would be off the table! Whoever authorised all this was crawling up the Indonesian Government’s arses to stay friendly so that the Indonesians wouldn’t invade our country, NOW IT IS ALL OUT WARFARE.
Our foreign aid should cease immediately, WE SHOULD PUT A TRAVEL BAN ON BALI and Australians should boycott Indonesia! WE SHOULD ALSO SEND OUR TROOPS INTO EAST PAPUA AND DRIVE OUT THE INDONESIAN MILITARY WHO ARE CREATING TERRIBLE MASS MURDER AND GENOCIDE!
#boycottindonesia#
Flying the flag of reform?
James. Widodo’s Papua policy is driven by economic development not security or human rights.
Apart from domestic investment, he wants to attract largescale foreign investment so needs to show Papua is open for business. Hence, he’s treating an abnormal situation as normal and appealing directly to citizens, both Adat and settler society, over the heads of TNI, the pro OTSUS elites, and the separatist leadership[s]. The latter stand to lose the most should Widodo succeed in normalising Papua and can be expected to resist by attempting to demonstrate they hold a veto over development. Violence is one way. there are others. There’s been almost no development in Jayapura since Gus Dur was President. Most available land in the City has been claimed for Adat and construction prevented. A friend, third gen Papuan born from an Ambonese family, still has to fend off Adat neighbours claiming to own his land and house and demanding payment. Each payment begets the next demand. In such ways does the OPM continue to alienate people from it’s cause.
Scrambling to draw lessons
The sentence: “Such an agreement will sire hundreds of Ph.D’s snd give life to 10,000 analytical thrusts” says more about the “State of the Academy in Western Universities” than about the “State in Burma (or Mranma)”.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Concentrate on Burma ? Because of Islamic hypocrisy aided and abetted by Leftist claptrap. The question should be asked of Dhaka how they are going to contribute to Rohingya livelihoods, considering that the Rohingya are nothing but Bangladeshis in false Burmese clothing. But since so many tears are shed for these poor Bangladeshis, while Bashar Assad slaughters 250,000 Muslim Syrians, we might as well ask why the always voluble Dr Mahathir rants and raves about persecution of Muslims, and yet how many Rohingya has Malaysia actually taken ? Hardly any. Because they do not LOOK MALAY ENOUGH, irrespective of being Muslim. That’s the Ummah for you; always “looking after their own”……or not.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
It is slightly surprising (or rather not surprising at all) that the conference does not include any expert on either Myanmar, Bangladesh or the Rohingya. It just follows the common pattern that some wise old men tell others what they are supposed to do. If this is the understanding of human rights, I think some modifications are required.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Sadly this article with it croc tear serve to polarize the Kala and none Kala within Myanmar.
Croc tear?
Hi lighting the typical one side western inspire concept of atrocities without even mention the Alqueda inspired atrocities within Myanmar and just across the border.
The biggest evidence of croc tear is failure to give any solution that will uniquely suit Myanmar than condemning what has already evolved within Myanmar govt. control.
Does Dr N. Hudson-Rodd truly believe that the problem is exclusively the responsibility of Myanmar but nothing to do with Bangladesh, OAS and Malaysia/ Indonesia? politics?
Kala within Myanmar have the basic rights just as all Kala in Maulamyain, Yangon , Mandalay and beyond.
AS it is now most Kala in Yakhine already prosper just like the WA/Chinese within border region.
The Boatloads of refugee and the camp are the result of the West policy and hypocrisy.
DAASK is another perfect example. Used now abused for not falling inline due to on the ground realities within Myanmar.
If Dr N. H-R is really serious about the Kala/ Rohingyas future, come with a carrot instead of only stick.
As it is there are much more urgent matter to deal with within Myanmar than the cry wolf atttention.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Muslims have always and everywhere indulged in trafficking reducing to slavery or otherwise making money out of their own – even more out of “infidels”. It Muslim Lybian traffickers who are sending boatloads of African Muslims at sea in the Mediterranea and drowning non-Muslims when overloaded. Bengal, Malaysia and Indonesia do not either feel any compassion towards their Muslim brethen. And the Thai traffickers of Rohingya are Southern Muslim Thais. Why concentrate fire on Burma ?
Australia-Indonesia: the view from Jakarta
Blanket generalizations about how all westerners argue. You clearly think an Australian and a Swede argue the same way. Talk of “Half-bred” Indonesianists — the term repeated. Use of the phrase “Tourette-like” symptoms.
Sorry, Mr. Martinus, but if you want to show “cultural competence,” you have to do better.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Mahathir bin Mohammad is hardly an iconic figure and has hypocritically traded with the Myanmar government, while it whines about the Rohingya, Mahathir and Malaysia do not care about the Rohingya except as a wedge Islamic issue to push Islamic causes via the OIC. Malaysia has allowed thousands of Rohingya to die on boats and in Malaysia’s northern border regions. Mahathir wishes to “Palestinise” the Rohingya issue for his own inflated ego and global posterity only, and nothing more.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
I suspect the global apathy towards the plight of the Rohingya is partly due to them being Muslims. We usually read media reports of minorities being abused and killed in Muslim majority countries (eg. Yazidis, Coptics, Christians, Baha’i). In Myanmar, the situation is reversed with Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingya. I wouldn’t be surprised if segments of the global public perceive this as “retribution” for atrocities committed by Muslim countries and prefer to overlook the events in Myanmar.
Also, the image of Buddhism is usually that of peace, meditation and quiet reverence (despite the behaviour of monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka). It also helps the Myanmar government that the Rohingya are virtually indistinguishable from Bangladeshis unlike other Burmese races. Therefore, it is much easier to vilify the Rohingya as an “infection” that has to be stamped out.
Minorities and minority rights in Thailand
John and David are correct to underscore what is at stake in enforcing Thainess upon diverse ethnic groups with multiple identities, namely a violent imposition denying the right to ones different culture, language and way of being a human. Not the Thai way or the highway
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Let it be true identity, because we cannot distinguish them with Bangladeshi. I strongly suggest for human rights implementation in Myanmar either Rohinya or Bengali.
Shot through the heart
Answer to Mango Man. The police force which tipped off the Indonesian police about the Bali 9 drug smugglers was the Australian Federal police who now have blood on their hands after the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Australia with six other Indonesian Inmates on death row.
“Never Again”: time to end genocide in Burma
Whatever the plight of the Rohinggyas, to have Mahathir Mohamad as a Human Rights Champion at a conference concerned with their welfare does not seem to me an altogether happy choice!
Minorities and minority rights in Thailand
Just a few quick questions before we get into this. Have you watched the videos? Do you know what is happening at the “reconciliation” seminars? Have you been following Prachatai.com recently (say, the past year)?
Minorities and minority rights in Thailand
A wonderful resource, but what is with the overblown rhetoric of this posting?
Australia-Indonesia: the view from Jakarta
Thanks very much Matt.
Apologies that my question appeared loaded.
I’ll read through all of the resources you provided to understand why the selection of TML was controversial. But yes, you provide a very different take from those that I have read.
I agree with you that “…Australian media and political elites are having serious trouble engaging with Indonesia…”
I think no one disagrees with you or Pierre on that. In fact there are many academics in Australia who are arguing precisely for more investment in this area (see the White paper on Australia in the Asian Century and the attendant arguments made by academics).
But I think Pierre’s analysis appears incomplete at best or dishonest at worst; and has detracted the debate from a very good point that he makes i.e how should Australia engage with Indonesia (for that matter other Asian countries) achieving the right balance without sacrificing its core ideals.
Also, just wondering (another digression) if Indonesia as a member of G20 and BRICS was demonstrating leadership in the manner it handled the execution.
Once again, thanks for the detailed response.
Cheers
Greg
Change you can depend on
As the economic pie grow to it eventual unique size, the limitations to equity are evident.
1) Continuing ethnic unrest
2) Internal inherent problems.
1) Will give the Military the dominant share of everything for years to come. As witness now with the flush of cash and less restraint ultimate escalation b/f a controlled calmer ethnic areas. The potential for instability and a return to dictatorial government is a foreboding shadows. The # of conflicts and future real potential conflicts will require an unprecedented solutions.
2) First and foremost is the scourge of “graft”. In the west lobbying and campaigning contribution has legitimize/neutralize ‘Graft”. In ASEAN countries only Singapore has managed to bring this scourge to a reasonable level. What happen in Myanmar and how this scourge is handle will determine the permanence of changes now and in the future.
Australia-Indonesia: the view from Jakarta
Hi Greg
1. A very loaded direct question. From what I’ve read, PERADI never made any such explicit allegation of “corruption” against Todung because that would exceed their actually more limited role in regulating the profession pursuant to UU No. 18/2003, the Indonesian Advocates’ Code of Ethics (KEAI), and related instruments. Many common views hold that such semantics are hair-splitting anyway, but the distinctions are still important in law.
The above point is also important when comparing Todung’s approach to the Law and towards the Indonesian legal profession’s regulators in PERADI. Whereas PERADI restricts itself to its role as set by statute and Constitutional Court declaration, Todung seems to assert continually an assumed right to not only disregard PERADI but to override it by challenging its statutory authority. I have never seen any disclaimer or correction by Todung in his many appearances and public statements, not only with the Chan-Sukumaran cases but also with Chevron, for example, where reported as “lawyer”, etc., despite his official permanent disbarment since 2008.
2. Basically, PERADI found Todung to have asserted first in 2002, while auditing Salim Group for the Government – and receiving Government payment for those services – that Salim Group HAD violated the Master of Settlement and Acquisition Agreement (MSAA) of 21 Sept 1998 around claimed assets in sale/liquidation, and HAD caused loss to the State. PERADI then found Todung to have later asserted in 2006, while acting for Salim Group in a litigation case over the same matter of asset sale/liquidation that Salim Group HAD NOT violated the MSAA of 21 Sept 1998 and HAD NOT caused loss to the State.
The decision is 26 pages here, for example: http://www.4shared.com/web/preview/pdf/KDim54yz
A good summary is here: http://latihanetikaprofesi.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/etika-profesi-pada-kasus-todung-mulya.html
The case actually seems a modern Asian demonstration of Socrates’ ancient warnings, bequeathed to us by Plato, in which the classical philosopher-logician denounces as base and decadent those sophists who would sell their advocacy regardless of what they knew to be the actual facts of a dispute.
Your list of English language reading is interesting for what it omits, which is almost the entire specific material of consideration and judgement in PERADI’s hearing over Todung’s alleged transgressions. The piece on Hotman seems nothing more than journalistic mockery-cum-freak-story; the others cite general sunset/limitation for other-matter engagement with the case’s parties, and a letter by a department official, both of which were obviously not essential, decisive or even relevant facts for consideration.
Your English-language commentary links would prove Pierre Marthinus’ more basic point that Australian media and political elites are having serious trouble engaging with Indonesia.