TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The legal counsel team of the defendant assaulted Baswedan’s novel commented on a number of criticisms to prosecutors who demanded Mercy Kadir Mahulettu and Roni Bugis with one year’s jail term.
“Only certain circles were misleading and misperception about the demands of the public prosecutor because from the beginning they did not know the facts revealed in the trial,” said one of the legal advisors when reading the duplicate before the North Jakarta District Court judges on Monday, June 29 2020
“But arbitrarily commenting on the low demands of the public prosecutors and then looking for justifications with their own assumptions, coupled with the narratives they think are true,” continued the legal advisory team.
In the duplicate file received by Tempo, the legal advisory team for Roni Bugis and Rahmat Kadir Mahulettu consisted of nine people. They are Eddy Purwatmo, Widodo, Endang Usman, Viktor Sihombing, Budhi Harryarsana, Hotlan Damanik, Fidian, Dili Yanto and Ihwan Budiarto.
Previously, a number of parties expressed criticism of the one-year demand given by prosecutors to Rahmat Kadir Mahulettu and Roni Bugis. One of them was delivered by the Director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute Arif Maulana.
Arif, who is also a member of the Baswedan Novel Advocacy team, said there were vast differences in demands to cope for the case of splashing hard water on the Baswedan Novel, with ordinary people.
“I think this is a striking irregularity and insulting common sense, the legal process in Indonesia,” Arif said in a teleconference, Sunday, June 21, 2020.
Arif said there were 6 cases of hard watering that occurred in 2017-2020. For example in Mojokerto, Bengkulu, Palembang and Pekalongan. Arif said the average criminal threat for the perpetrators of hard watering was a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 20 years. While the prosecutor’s claim to the perpetrators of hard watering cases against the Novel is only 1 year.
“This shows an extraordinary disparity,” Arif said.
In addition, the Indonesian Advocate Congress (KAI) also suspects that the prosecutors who handled the attack on the Baswedan Novel were not professional in carrying out their duties and obligations. If this is true, KAI considers the prosecutor to be subject to sanctions.
“In accordance with the Regulation of the Attorney General of the Republic of Indonesia Number PER-067 / A / JA / 07/2007 concerning the Code of Conduct for Prosecutors, including Article 3 and Article 4,” said KAI Vice President, Djuju Purwantoro in a written statement on Monday, June 15 2020
According to Djuju, since the beginning of the investigation of this case, the signal of case manipulation has emerged. The prosecutor’s indictment was said to appear contradictory to the results of a previous investigation conducted by an independent joint police team. “Among other things, there is a strong suspicion, the connection between the attacks on Novels and the cases he is dealing with,” said Djuju.
In addition, other irregularities were seen that this trial did not adequately explore key witnesses, suspected persons and examination or confiscation of important evidence. Djuju said, what had been done by the two defendants in this case, namely Ronny Bugis and Rahmat Kadir, could not be separated from the existence of intentions that caused an effect. For that, according to him, the perpetrators must take responsibility by accepting the toughest lawsuits.
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