Jakarta – Laode M. Syarif, Corruption Elimination Commission (KPK) ex-commissioner, opined that public district attorneys’ (JPU’s) demand for a year-long jail term for 2 police officers that had assaulted senior KPK private investigator Unique Baswedan did not make sense.
” It can not be accepted by good sense,” Syarif kept in mind here on Friday in connection with the prosecutors’ needs at the trial in the Novel Baswedan attack case on the previous day.
Syarif drew parallel to the district attorneys’ demand for a six-year imprisonment for Bahar Bin Smith in a persecution case.
” Simply compare it to Bahar Bin Smith’s persecution case,” he mentioned.
Syarif was of the view that the trial process for the Baswedan attack case was merely a “farce.”
” I see this court as a ‘theatrical phase,'” he verified.
Throughout the court hearing on Thursday, the district attorneys demanded an one-year imprisonment each for defendants, Ronny Bugis and Rahmat Kadir Mahulette, the 2 police officers, for orchestrating the maltreatment that resulted in severe injuries to Baswedan.
” The troublesome aspects are the reality that the defendant has tarnished the (image) of the Indonesian Police (Polri) organization. Matters that are minimizing are that he has actually never been convicted previously, has actually admitted to the act, has actually been cooperative, and has worked as a member of the National Police for 10 years,” North Jakarta District attorney Ahmad Fatoni remarked while reading out the need for Bugis.
Baswedan was assaulted while heading home after performing Fajr, or the Dawn prayer, at a mosque nearby when two motorcyclists hurled acid on his face that hurt his eyes, especially the left eye, on April 11, 2017.
The 42- year-old retired law enforcement officer has actually been operating in the anti-graft firm considering that 2007 and turned over with investigating significant corruption cases, consisting of those apparently including numerous high-ranking authorities. Ever since, he had been frequently terrified and attacked.
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