Don’t know what Indonesia’s particular legal system requires, but from a moral point of view, there is that whole pesky mens rea thing.
The tax comparison is a good one, in that everyone knows how fucked the situation is: when you have complexity of law to the point where the non-expert is literally not qualified to know how to follow the law, we have to, by necessity, rely on paid experts to simply exist as non-law breakers. Given that reality, it’s simply not moral to hold people responsible for those parties’ mistakes/crimes.
I’ve been on work visas overseas, and while I take a peek at my passport out of curiosity, whether those stamps are legally correct or not is way beyond my pay grade. At the end of the day, you’re relying on others and any punishment involved should take plausible levels of mens rea into account.
does the Indonesian legal system recognize mens rea? skimming the article it looks like a common law thingy, and in Germany “ignorance of the law is no excuse” is normally true
