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News article: Email complaint lands Indonesian mum in jail.

Summary
A mother of two toddlers was detained under a new Electronic Information and Transaction Law after she sent an email message to a group of friends complaining about the poor serice she received at a hospital. The email was passed on to many others, eentually into the hands of Omni International Alam Sutra Hospital, which promptly sued her, accusing her of slander. She was detained on May 13 and thrown into women's prison for three weeks. She faces a criminal court trail and could get up to six year's jail and a 1 billion rupiah fine if convicted. She sent the email in August last year after going to hospital for treatment. In the email, she wrote about her disappointment with the poor service and attitude of the management, and complained about the doctor's skill. But according to the hospital's lawyer, it was not only a claim of poor service. She also claimed that the hospital swindled her. Vice-president Jusurf Kalla said," It's going too far. It's about a trivial matter. They can't put her in jail. They could have put her under house arrest." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his concerns and had asked the Attornery-General and national police to look in the case and find a good solution.

Opinions
1) I think it is not right of Indonesia to put the mum in jail. She only wrote a complain letter, saying about her experience in the hospital. She has the right to express her opinions of the hospital. She was only stating a opinion when she said that that she had received poor service from the hospital and was disppointed in the hospital.

2) I agree with vice-president Jusurf Kalla that they have gone to far. The Indonesian has created a storm in tea cup over such trivial matters. It is only a case of a complain letter and yet, they had placed the mum in jail and she might face up to 6 years of jail and a fine of 1 billion rupiah. They could only have sentenced under house arrest for such trivial matters.

3) According to the hospital lawyer, the mum also wrote that the hospital has swindled her. I think it is not right of her to write this. She could have only stated about the facts(About the poor service she received, Poor attitude of staff etc). If she had added in that she was swindled, she was also in the wrong.

4) I think this incident happened as the mum wrote the email to her friends. Her friends then passed it on, and soon, it was a chain message. The message then spread like a wild bush fire. Soon, many people will know about it. Now, when technology is very advanced, we can email others who are at the opposite of the world where we are in a few minutes. Chain messages can also be spread from one person to twenty others within minutes. This is the reason why we can spread chain messages within an hour or two. Some chain messages even scares the receiver by saying that if they don't send the message to a certain number of people, something bad will happen to them. I think sending these chain messages is a complete waste of time. Not only will you scare the receiver, you will also spasm his email.