Netray Monitoring Of Ferdy Sambo's Discount And Netizens' Negative Sentiments Against The Supreme Court

Ferdy Sambo and his wife, Putri Candrawathi, received a reduced sentence from the Supreme Court which provoked negative reactions from netizens. (Between/Galih Pradipta)

VOIJAKARTA - The massive discount that Ferdy Sambo received last week became a hot topic of conversation among Twitter residents, social media which is now called X. But not Sambo and his friends who became the center of attention, but the Supreme Court which was widely discussed with negative sentiment.

This story began with Ferdy Sambo submitting an appeal on May 12, 2023. Then on August 8, the trial was held and the decision made many people distrustful. The suspects in the murder case of Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat alias Brigadier J received massive leniency.

The death penalty, which was previously handed down to the former Head of the National Police Propam Division, was commuted with a life sentence based on the results of the cassation. Not only that, Sambo's wife, Putri Candrawati, received a penalty of only 10 years, after previously being sentenced to 20 years in prison. The penalty discount also applies to Strong Ma'ruf from 15 years of guards to 10 years and Bripka Ricky Rizal from 13 years to eight years.

Untuk memantau respons publik menanggapi keputusan cassasi terhadap Ferdy Sambo cs,Netray Media Monotoring memantau pemberitaan media daring menggunakan kata kuncangan && sambodi akun Twitter pada 8 sampai 10 Agustus 2023. Berdasarkan hasil pemantauan, muncul sebanyak 1.273 artikel dalam periode tersebut. Ada sebanyak 158 media berita daring yang mengunggahkan artikel-artikel mengenai pengurangan hukuman Fredy Sambo cs.

Netizens not only discussed the sentence of Ferdy Sambo who was circumcised completely, but also five judges who led the trial. Of the five judges, two of them received positive sentiment while the other three received negative sentiment. This happened because the five judges had different voices regarding Ferdy Sambo's decision and friends.

Jupriadi as a member of the second panel of judges and Desnayeti as a member of the second panel of judges received positive attention from netizens. That's because both of them still insisted on passing the death sentence on Ferdy Sambo.

It is known that the two judges had different dissenting opinions or opinions. Jupriadi and Desnayeti rejected the cassation and still wanted to impose a death sentence on Ferdy Sambo. However, the voices of the two continued to lose to the other three judges, "saidNEtray's report.

However, judges Jupriadi and Desnayeti could not do much because they lost votes to three other judges. Unlike the two judges, the other three judges received negative attention on Twitter for giving Sambo cs leniency.

The three judges were Suhadi as the presiding judge, and Suharto and Yohanes as member judges. The news about the judges who changed Sambo's sentence drew negative sentiment, "Netray's report added.

The intensity of netizens' conversations about this topic began to be seen since August 8 at 18.00, or shortly after the cassation decision eased the sentence for the suspects in the murder of Brigadier Joshua was announced. This topic peaked the following day on August 9, 2023 with a total of 11,689 tweets.

Negative sentiment dominated netizens' response to the Supreme Court's decision. The Supreme Court even became the target of netizens following their decision to give Sambo cs a huge penalty discount. Netizens often use the judge's decision to circumcise the sentence as a massive discount or discount, coinciding on August 8. The twin dates, in this case 8-8, are often used by residents to look for large-scale discounts when shopping online.

'Discount 8.8 ashoyy. Not only shops with a big discount parade, the killers of Brigadier J, namely Ferdy Sambo, Putri Candrawathi, Ricky Rizal, and Strong Ma'ruf also got a penalty discount after their appeal was granted by MS," said ERA.id tweet

In the same period, Netray found 21,778 tweets using the keywords #ferdySambo and sambo&&punishment. Talks about this topic caught the attention of netizens, with a total impression of 92.8 million reactions. The tweet was uploaded by more than 9 thousand accounts with potential contacts reaching 138.2 million accounts.

In the aftermath of netizens' frustration with the three judges, they also hunted for their past. Until finally found the fact that Judge Suhadi had acquitted PK Sudjino Timan in a fictitious credit case that had cost the state more than Rp300 billion.

The public then questioned the Supreme Court's decision to give a cut in punishment to Ferdy Sambo et al. Netizens who were confused by the Supreme Court's decision did not get a satisfactory answer from President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). He asked the public to respect the existing decision.

"I respect the existing decisions," said Jokowi at Dukuh Atas LRT Station, Jakarta, Thursday (10/8/2023).

According to member of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Society (CALS) Herdiansyah Hamzah Castro, the Supreme Court must be able to properly explain the basis for considering the cut of punishment. According to him, the decision given by the Supreme Court seemed to strengthen the public's view that there was an attempt to intervene behind the scenes. The alleged fraud had existed since the beginning because Sambo loyalists had reportedly tried to intervene in the legal process.

"At the cassation level, it is judexjuris who only examines the application of the law. The mitigating factor should no longer be the main consideration. So it is irrational if the basis for giving discounts on penalties is about mitigating factors," he said.

In accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Supreme Court is a judexjuris. This means that the Supreme Court only examines the legal application carried out by the previous court, namely district courts and high courts.