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Unsyiah Saiful Mahdi Lecturer Receives Jokowi’s Amnesty, Wife: Proof of the State’s Attendance

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President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) issued amnesty for a lecturer at Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) Banda Aceh, Saiful Mahdi and has been approved by the DPR. Saiful Mahdi’s wife, Dian Rubiaty, believes that the amnesty for her husband is proof that the state is present when the truth is silenced.

“When we experience a legal process where we are faced with a power structure and we feel powerless, it feels like the country is far away. So for us this amnesty is proof that the state is present when we feel that justice does not exist and the truth is silenced,” Dian told reporters. , Saturday (9/10/2021).

Dian hopes that amnesty will not only be given to her husband, but also to victims with the same case as Saiful Mahdi.
He considered granting amnesty to the case that ensnared her husband was an extraordinary progress.

“This is a tremendous step forward, I don’t want to be happy alone. I know the tears when my husband is in prison. So I can imagine this is not easy for anyone in our position. So we hope this amnesty is not just ours, This amnesty belongs to all the victims. If this amnesty can wipe the tears of me and the children, then this amnesty must be able to wipe the tears of all the other victims,” ​​he said.

“It seems unfair that only Saiful Mahdi can be released. So all cases are the same, all victims are the same, they must feel the same freedom,” he continued.

Dian said similar cases with her husband were not enough just to revise the Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) law. According to him, there needs to be education to law enforcement and also the public regarding changes in the way of communicating which is currently mostly done through social media.

“This is of course not only by revising the ITE Law but also by law enforcement steps, educating the people. So this is not possible for one party, so this is our hard work for Indonesia. All people must be willing to change, the law must really see, learn to see progress. Now that our lives have changed, all traditional conversation spaces have now moved to social media,” he said.

“So when responding and so on, law enforcement must really see and be open and can no longer only rely on paper but also have to look at various other social aspects when dealing with and wanting to leave, prioritizing restorative justice and so on. There must be mutual cooperation to fix ,” he explained.

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