SP/Erwin Sihombing – In the opinion of Indonesia's attorney general, solving the issue of corruption in the country's courtrooms will take a lot more than raising the salaries of judges and prosecutors.

Attorney General Basrief Arief said on Wednesday that the judicial mafia's stranglehold on the system will not be loosened by a mere pay raise.

"Many judges and prosecutors were caught red-handed and terminated for acts of corruption," he said. "Even if their allowance is raised, it won't guarantee that [they won't accept bribes]."

Rather, Basrief suggested that the only way to improve the system was to recruit credible legal enforcers with good morals. "Strengthening judicial institutions will be meaningless without the right people," he said.

Additionally, according to Basrief, the government needs to beef up its monitoring of the judiciary in order to ensure a more fair and just court system.

Over the past few months, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested several judges for receiving bribes. Last month, Setiabudi Tejocahyono, the deputy head of the Bandung District Court, was apprehended for allegedly taking a bribe during a corruption case.