Up The Investigation, Bareskrim Immediately Examines Witnesses In The Hoax Case Of The Constitutional Court's Decision Denny Indrayana

Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan (Rizky AP/VOI)

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police will examine witnesses related to the alleged case of spreading false news or hoaxes regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the 2024 Election system into a closed proportional system involving former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Denny Indrayana. The investigation step was carried out after the status of the case was upgraded to an investigation. "Furthermore, the examination of witnesses will be scheduled to be carried out immediately," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, to reporters, Thursday, July 20. However, Ramadhan did not specify the identity of the witness and the time of the examination would be carried out. So far, it has only been submitted when the investigative team has submitted a notification letter for the start of the investigation (SPDP) to the Prosecutor's Office, the reporter, and the reported party. This step was taken to fulfill the administrative requirements for handling the case at the investigation stage. "Investigators have sent SPDP to the public prosecutor to the reported party and the reporter," said Ramadhan. As a reminder, Denny Indrayana was previously reported on suspicion of hate speech, fake news, insults to the authorities and leaks of state secrets to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police. The report was made by a person with the initials AWW on Wednesday, May 31. The report is registered with Number: LP/B/128/V/2023/SPKT/Bareskrim Polri. Meanwhile, the report was due to Denny on his Twitter account @dennyindranaya, claiming to have received information about the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the legislative election system which will return to the party voting. "This morning I received important information. The Constitutional Court will decide on the legislative election to return to a closed proportional system, again choosing the party's image mark only," Denny said via a tweet on his Twitter account @dennyindranaya. In his tweet, Denny also mentioned the source in the Constitutional Court. Although he did not answer clearly, Denny confirmed that the source was not a constitutional judge. "Who is the source? The person I really trust is credibility, who is definitely not a Constitutional Judge," he said. However, Denny denied that he leaked state secrets after revealing the claims of the information obtained. Denny said he did not use the phrase '... get a leak' when delivering his statement. "Please listen carefully. I have carefully chosen the phrase '... get the information," he said. "Not... 'got a leak'. No verdict was leaked because we all know that there has been no decision. I wrote '... the Constitutional Court will decide'. Still, it has not been decided," continued Denny.

However, the Constitutional Court in the plenary session decided that the electoral system would continue to use an open proportional scheme.