AGO The Value Of The Incident In The Ronald Tannur Case Should Be Viewed Holistically

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) assessed that the incident in the case of the murder of Dini Sera Afriyanti with the defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur should have been seen holistically or completely by the Panel of Judges at the Surabaya District Court (PN).

Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, said that the judge's consideration in imposing acquittal was because no witness had seen the murder incident firsthand and the victim's death was due to the influence of alcohol.

According to him, the judge should have considered what happened between the victim and the perpetrator at the time of the incident as a whole.

He said there was evidence that supported the entire series of events, including CCTV evidence that indicated that the victim was run over by the perpetrator's car and a visum et repertum result letter that explained the cause of the wound on the victim which was in accordance with the expert's statement.

According to him, it is the duty of the panel of judges with the authority to reveal the most complete case based on the available evidence.

"Maybe the defendant denied it, but the judge could use this other evidence to strengthen his belief. We see that here the judge did not use it, so he released the defendant," he said when met at the AGO Building, Jakarta, Thursday, July 25, was confiscated by Antara.

As for the acquittal, the Surabaya District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has declared an appeal regarding the verdict of innocence by the panel of judges who acquitted Ronald Tannur.

In the appeal of this case to the Supreme Court, the Surabaya Kejari Public Prosecutor's Team hopes that the Supreme Court will consider the evidence from the post-mortem et repertum related to the traces of severe abuse found on the body of the victim.

It is known, on Wednesday (24/7), the Judge of the Surabaya District Court, East Java, acquitted the defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur, the son of an inactive DPR member Edward Tannur, from the indictment related to the murder of the victim Dini Sera Afriyanti (29).

The chairman of the Panel of Judges, Erintuah Damanik, stated that the defendant was deemed not legally and convincingly proven to have committed murder or mistreatment that resulted in the death of the victim.

"The defendant was not legally and convincingly proven as in the first indictment of Article 338 of the Criminal Code or the second Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code Or the third Article 359 of the Criminal Code and 351 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code," he said.

The judge also considered that the defendant was still trying to help the victim during critical times as evidenced by the defendant's efforts to take the victim to the hospital for help.

"Freeing the defendant from all charges by the public prosecutor above," he said.