1. I am not defending the Indonesian legal system.
2. Please understand that we do not have all of the facts.
3. The media hype is more than responsible for the highly emotive responses from most ordinary folk
4. Attacks on the individual judge who handed down the verdict against Schappelle are of absolutely no benefit, and certainly won't do her cause any good.
5. Claiming to boycott Bali isn't really going to achieve too much either.
The fact is, she has been sentenced. There may or may not be an appeal, (my money is on one being lodged) but if there is, it will further delay her being deported home to serve her remaining sentence. I believe that she will be brought home most likely within 3-5 years or so, and will serve another chunk of her sentence here. After she is home, the government will begin lobbying the Indonesian royal family seeking mercy/leniency/pardon and Schappelle could be released well within the 20years if one is granted.
Nothing about this entire episode save the non pronouncement of the death sentence is worthy of the media hype. Nothing could have been done differently by the Indonesian judiciary BECAUSE IT WAS SO VERY MUCH UNDER INTENSE SCRUTINY OF THE AU GOVERMENT AND MEDIA OUTLETS.
The decision in your opinion may be unjust, but that is your opinion which has been arrived at without the benefit of the full facts being revealed. Thats facts, not the media blurb being dished out, which would have been culled to fit a time frame based on advertising or other news items to be broadcast.
She's a lucky girl not to be facing a bullet, considering how strongly the asian communities feel about drugs and the couriers' of it.