Ida Bagus Wiswantanu was Chief Government Prosecutor in Bali, Indonesia from 2002 until 2005. The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the Common law Adversarial system, or the civil law Bali is an Indonesian Island located at, the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. ^[1]

Wiswantanu had stated that in 90 per cent of more than 200 narcotics cases he has handled, he has obtained the sentence he has sought for the accused. In Mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a Fraction of 100 ( per cent meaning "per hundred" The term narcotic (ναρκωτικός is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden causing loss He also claimed that the one in ten cases in which judges have wound back his sentence requests are the small ones, "usually less than 100 grams". ^[2]

Wiswantanu has received much attention recently during the prosecution of convicted Australian drug-smuggler Schapelle Corby, a case that some people claim has harmed relations between Australia and Indonesia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian convicted and imprisoned in Indonesia for Drug smuggling.

Since June 2005 Wiswantanu, himself, is under investigation requested by KPK, Indonesia's new anti-corruption ministry, following reports accusing him of corruption and law abuses in another case he was handling in 2005. Political corruption is the use of governmental powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain ^[3]

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