Police Name Suspect Of Land Grabbing Owned By Entrepreneurs In Semarang City

Entrepreneur Daniel Budi Setiawan (left) showed his land document which was allegedly seized in Semarang, Monday. (ANTARA/IC Senjaya)

SEMARANG - Semarang Police have named a suspect in the alleged land grabbing case belonging to a businessman Daniel Budi Setiawan in the capital city of Central Java.

"It is true that there has been a suspect determination with the initials S," said Head of the Assets and Objects of the Semarang Police Satreskrim Iptu Raditya Triatmaji as reported by ANTARA, Monday, October 16.

According to him, the case began with a report by Daniel Budi Setiawan about the existence of some land in the Genuksari area, Genuk District, Semarang City, which turned out to have changed ownership.

The land, he continued, turned out to have changed ownership to suspect S.

S himself, he continued, was charged with a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 51 of 1960 concerning the Prohibition of Land Usage Without Permit or Article 389 of the Criminal Code concerning land grabbing.

Raditya also learned about the civil lawsuit filed by S against Daniel Budi Setiawan at the Semarang District Court regarding the ownership of the land.

According to him, investigators are still waiting for the results of the decision on the civil lawsuit before conducting further investigations into the alleged land grabbing case.

Meanwhile, Daniel Budi Setiawan's attorney, Sandy Cristanto, said that his client reported to the police because he could not control the 3,141 square meter land.

In fact, according to him, Daniel Budi Setiawan has owned the land since 1983.

However, he continued, suddenly some of the land was controlled by S. who was a neighbor on his land.

Sandy said his client was ready to face S's lawsuit at the Semarang District Court.

"We have evidence that the land certificate is already owned in advance than claims from S," he said.

Meanwhile, Michael Deo, S's attorney, after the trial at the Semarang District Court, said the lawsuit was filed against Daniel Budi Setiawan due to an error in writing the land area.

"This defendant stated that he has a letter C certificate with an area of 5,724 square meters, this is what we ask the court to correct, because the actual area is only 2,080 square meters," he said.

Deo also claimed his client had proof of ownership and a history of purchasing the letter C land.

This civil lawsuit is part of an effort to prove administrative error so that it does not immediately take this case to the criminal realm.