Dozens Of Papuan Students And Indigenous People Geruduk The Attorney General's Office Express Disappointed Feelings

Dozens of people from students and Papuans / Photo; IST

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) building in the Kebayoran Baru area, South Jakarta, was raided by a mob from the Anti-Corruption Indigenous Papuan Community and Student Alliance (OAP). Their arrival was to question the attitude of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office who had not yet arrested and detained Johanes Rettob, who had been named a corruption defendant worth Rp43 billion for the procurement and operation of helicopters and planes belonging to the Papuan Regional Government.

"We, the Alliance of Community and Students, native to Papua Anti-Corruption, regret and question the reasons for not detaining the defendant in the corruption crime against the Acting Regent of Mimika, the defendant Johanes Rettob." said Alfred Pabika, the coordinator of the action in his statement.

"We, as anti-corruption activists, are truly disappointed with the attitude and actions of the Papuan High Prosecutor's Office investigators who allow corruptors to stay around and use the Mimika Regional Government's APBD money." he continued.

Alfred Pabika also questioned the attitude of the Papua Prosecutor's Office which did not arrest and detain Johanes Rettob, who was said to have committed an extraordinary crime.

"What is the reason the Papua Prosecutor's Office has not detained the corruption defendant? Is this part of law enforcement?" added Aldred.

Meanwhile, the attorney for the OAP Anti-Corruption Community and Student Alliance, Michael Himan, said that in the case of the corruption defendant Plt, the Mimika regent, his party found the fact that the Papuan community had taken serious attention and of course the Indonesian people.

"The determination of the suspect against the Acting Regent Johanes Rettob, who is currently a defendant in the case of procurement of planes and helicopters, is an effort that has been pushed by the public and students of the Papuan Indigenous People Anti-Corruption." said Michael Himan. However, in determining the suspect Plt. Regent Johanes Rettob, continued Michael Himan, this was not the same as the actions of Papuan Attorney General's Office investigators in detaining the suspect Johanes Rettob which caused disappointment for the Papuan people, especially the Mimika community.

"Departing from the experience of interim decisions in corruption cases, the judge rejected the prosecutor's indictment and accepted the defendant's exception in the corruption case in the procurement of the Mimika Regional Government aircraft and helicopters that ensnared the Acting Regent of Mimika Johanes Rettob (JR) and Silvi Heraway." he explained.

"So we from the Masyarakaat Alliance and Indigenous Papuan students ask the Attorney General's Office to immediately arrest and detain the corruption defendant Plt. Mimika Regent before the follow-up hearing on June 6, 2023." he continued.

The detention of the defendant, said Alfred, was the investigator's subjective decision. In this case, he continued, there was sufficient reason for the Papuan Attorney General's Office to detain the suspect though Rettob due to the legal threat of suspect Johanes Rettob above 5 (five) years apart from that, article 21 of the Criminal Procedure Code.