[HiTech RedNeck]

One of the witnesses was said to be a person already in custody who had admitted owning the marijuana stash.

Can't they do a private deposition or something like that. It's not like Bali courts have to worry about the openness laws of Australia or America.

[naturalman1975]

It's a political exercise - the Indonesian courts are trying to show that she is getting every advantage they can give her. They really want people to believe she has had a fair trial, so from her perspective they want this done in public - so if it turns out this evidence doesn't hold up, everyone can see that is the case.