HOW AND WHY DOES THE COURT DECIDE PUNISHMENT AGAINST CRIMINALS?

“The public expect that laws are enforced fairly so that we can feel safety and fully confident in the legal system. This is so that offenders do not get special treatment and are punished appropriately to deter crime. The public is also a moral public and require the laws to manifest their outrage at reprehensible crime and other antisocial behavior of wayward offenders. At the same time, though we sometimes forget, the public comprises individuals who, individually, may also get in trouble with the law once in a while. Therefore punishments should be strictly within the rules of law so that if we do get punished, we are not punished more than what is fitting, a punishment which DPPs in lower courts always say, ‘hukuman setimpal’. ”