Through Pleidoi, Fariz RM Asks For Rehabilitation Requests To Be Granted

JAKARTA - In reading the regretful plea note (pleidoi), senior musician Fariz RM honestly explained the root of his problems with narcotics.

He admitted that his decision to use prohibited items in youth was the biggest mistake that has become a bad habit to date, telling about his efforts to recover in the past.

In front of the panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court, Fariz RM did not deny his actions, but instead traced them to the roots.

"As I said in the last defendant's examination, I made a mistake. My biggest mistake was that I chose to use narcotics in my youth, which then became a bad habit in me," said Fariz RM while reading his plea at the South Jakarta District Court, Monday, August 11.

He also revealed that this was not the struggle he had just faced. Fariz explained that he had repeatedly tried to recover, including during the legal process in the previous case in 2018.

"I also have to say that I have made bad habits that I have tried many times to recover and recover. Until when I was in the third case in 2018, I was referred to carry out the legal process in accordance with the narcotics law which was supported by a circular letter from the Supreme Court at that time," said Fariz RM.

He recalled how the legal process in the past took him to a useful rehabilitation path.

"By the North Jakarta Police, I was immediately placed in a BNN rehabilitation center in Lido and the decision at the trial at that time, the North Jakarta Court, I was sentenced to continue my rehabilitation for one year which I was fully undergoing at that time," he added.

Fariz admitted that the rehabilitation process really had a positive impact on him at the time.

"The rehabilitation process that I got in 2018 was really very useful and I felt it, I really felt the consequences. At that time, in 2018, I could say that I was free as an active user, I no longer used it actively," said Fariz RM.

Facing future decisions, Fariz showed his surrender but full of hope. He views this process as the last chance of God to improve himself.

"I believe that whatever legal decision I will accept as a sanction is, God willing, it is God's will that gives me the opportunity and opportunity once again for me to be able to improve myself, introspect and rehabilitate myself," said Fariz RM.

He closed his plea with a sincere hope to be free from the snares of his past.

"To continue life as a human being who is more perfect born and inner, free from my bad habits who, who has become a bad habit in my life," he said.

Previously, the Public Prosecutor (JPU) charged the defendant Fariz RM with 6 years in prison. Fariz was found guilty of charges of drug abuse and possession.

In his demands, the Prosecutor also demanded Fariz to pay a fine of Rp. 800 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

The prosecutor believes that Fariz has violated Article 112 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code, in accordance with the second indictment indicted by the prosecutor before.

Fariz was charged with violating Article 114 paragraph (1) or Article 112 paragraph (1) and Article 111 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

In imposing charges, the prosecutor also has a number of considerations that are the basis for Fariz. For things that are burdensome to demands, it does not support the government's program in eradicating narcotics trafficking, and the defendant has already been convicted.

"The mitigating thing is that the defendant is cooperative in the trial process," said the prosecutor.