Writing To The Surabaya District Court, Mahfud MD Asks The Perpetrator To Be Sentenced To Lightly

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD sent a letter to the Surabaya District Court. In the letter, he asked the defendant who attacked his mother's house in Pamekasan, Madura, East Java last year to be lightly punished.

The defendant in question is Aji Dores who has been charged with seven months in prison. He is shown to have threatened to kill Mahfud and burn his mother's house.

Through his letter, Mahfud revealed that he had forgiven the defendant since the beginning of this incident.

"As far as my personality is concerned, from the start I have forgiven the defendant," Mahfud said in a fragment of the letter quoted on Thursday, March 25.

That way, the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK) hopes the court can ease Aji's sentence.

"So that if the defendant is legally and convincingly proven to have committed a criminal act as indicted by the Public Prosecutor, I hope that my forgiveness can be used as a consideration to lighten the sentence for him," he said.

The raid on the house where Mahfud MD's mother lived took place in early December 2020 and the video went viral on social media.

In the video, the crowd, which is dominated by men wearing Muslim clothes, comes to a house and a man who took the video said that the house was Mahfud MD's residence in Pamekasan.

Mahfud confirmed and confirmed that the house where his mother lived was indeed visited by a group of masses and the condition was safe and nothing had happened. He said the action did not cause any harm because when the incident occurred, there was already a party to take care of it.

Meanwhile, based on the narrative of her younger sister, Siti Marwiyah, who lives in Surabaya, East Java and went straight to her mother's residence when the raid took place, the masses who gathered mostly wore white clothes and sarongs. They forced their way into the house area and banged on the fence and door of the house screaming while their mother was resting after performing the midday prayer.

"Mother feels scared," said Siti in a video recording received by journalists, Wednesday, December 2.