Rizieq Shihab's Advanced Session. The Case Of UMMI Hospital In Bogor Is Quiet Sympathizers

JAKARTA - The East Jakarta District Court (PN) will again hold a trial to continue the swab result of the UMMI Hospital Bogor with the defendant Rizieq Shihab, this Wednesday, March 31.

However, during the hearing with the agenda of listening to the prosecutor's response to this exception, Rizieq Shihab's sympathizers did not appear.

Based on VOI's observation, in front of the East Jakarta District Court, police were seen on guard. They stood right at the gate. A policeman also using a loudspeaker continued to appeal.

He asked everyone around the East Jakarta District Court to continue implementing the health protocol.

"To the people around the East Jakarta District Court to apply health protocols. The spread of COVID-19 is still high", said a police officer.

Also visible were barbed wire stretched around the courthouse. But Rizieq Shihab's sympathizers were not seen. There were only two female sympathizers beside the courthouse. They are waiting to remain under the pedestrian bridge (JPO).

For information, in the case of the alleged swab results of the Bogor UMMI Hospital, Rizieq Shihab was charged with obstructing the Bogor City COVID-19 Task Force, West Java. Prosecutors said Rizieq Shihab lied to claim he was healthy even though it was COVID-19.

The prosecutor explained, on November 28, 2020, Rizieq Shihab left the Bogor UMMI Hospital and made a statement letter.

"With this, I do not allow anyone to disclose information about my medical examination results and the results of the swab", the prosecutor quoted Rizieq Shihab as saying when reading out the indictment at the East Jakarta District Court, Friday, March 19.

Rizieq Shihab's statement letter was made on November 28 with a 6,000 stamp. Rizieq Shihab's statement was sent to the Bogor Health Office with the aim that the Bogor Health Office and the Bogor City COVID-19 Task Force would not ask for Rizieq Shihab's PCR test results.

"As a result of the defendant's act of filling out the general consent form on November 24, 2020, and making a statement letter, basically not wanting to provide information regarding the result of the examination of the defendant who was positive for COVID-19, was an act of deliberately blocking the implementation of the epidemic prevention in which the Bogor City COVID-19 task force and the Health Office Bogor was unable to carry out one of its duties in the context of overcoming the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the ways is by using the tracing method with whom the defendant had previously contacted", said the prosecutor.

As a result of this action, the prosecutor said that the spread of COVID-19 in the City of Bogor had increased. This data was obtained by prosecutors based on the determination of the Bogor City National Task Force to be in the medium risk zone (orange) as of December 1, 2020. At that time the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients was 3,398, 98 died, 540 were still sick and 2760 recovered. .