Many Defendants Did Not Attend, Bandung Zoo Deed Session Postponed Until November 26

JAKARTA - The trial for the legality dispute of the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation (YMT) deed as the manager of the Bandung Zoo (Bandung Zoo), Wednesday, November 12, has been postponed again.

The trial, which was actually held at the Bandung District Court (PN) at 09.00 WIB, started at 14:40 WIB, with the agenda of summoning the parties, namely the plaintiffs (Bisma Bratakoesoema parties) and the defendants (John Sumampau parties).

During the trial, eight plaintiffs were represented by their attorneys, but 15 of the defendants, only Defendant 1 (Tony Sumampau), Defendant 2 (Daris Manansang), and Defendant 6 (John Sumampau) were represented by a legal representative.

Because many defendants were not present, within about 10 minutes of the opening of the trial, the judge finally decided that the trial would be postponed for two weeks and held again on November 26, 2025.

Between this postponement time, the judge asked the plaintiffs to correct the addresses of the defendants so that an invitation letter could be sent. Even if at the next trial the defendants still did not come, the judge decided to immediately carry out the mediation stage.

Met after the trial, YMT's new management attorney, Yopi Gunawan, explained that the postponement was due to several defendants not being present because the court invitation letter did not reach the intended one.

Yopi said the plaintiff, according to the judge's order, had to change the address. And now the address has been changed to unknown.

"In that condition, it must be called again through a public summons. Namely advertising through newspapers. And this trial will start again on November 26, 2025. If it is still not present, mediation will immediately be carried out," said Yopi.

It is known that this deed dispute lawsuit has case number 408 / Pdt.G / 2025 / PN Bdg, with the classification of cases of unlawful acts filed by eight people, namely Sri, I Gede Pantja Astana, Yani Haryani Solihin GP, Gantira Bratakusuma, Raden Bisma Bratakoesoema, Nina Kurnia Hikmawati, Mohamad Ariodillah, and Sri Rejeki.

I Gede Pantja Astana (possibly wrongly written from Astawa) is known to be one of the Professors of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Padjadjaran University (Unpad).

For Raden Bisma Bratakoesoema, it is known that he has received a seven-year prison sentence and an additional fine in the Bandung Zoo corruption case.

The document also states that there is an plaintiff named Sri, whose name is very synonymous with one of the defendants and has also received a detention sentence and a fine in the alleged corruption case of Bandung Zoo, Sri Devi.

This case was registered with the Bandung District Court on Thursday (4/9), with 15 defendants, consisting of Tony Sumampau, Danis Manansang, Rahmat Shah, Agus Santoso, Willy Sinaga, John Sumampau, Keni Sultan, Al Amin Syahputra Pelis, Teressia Sepanov, Willem Manangsang, Dina Enggaringtyas, Barata Y Mardikoesno, Mario Wijaya, Rubino, and Michael Nurtjahyo.

In its petitum, the plaintiffs requested that the panel of judges accept the entire lawsuit; then declare Deed Number 41 dated October 22, 2024 concerning Changes in the Composition of Trustees, Management and Supervisory of the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation dated October 23, 2024, which was made before Defendant I (Tony Sumampau) legally and legally.

Then stated the actions that had been carried out by all the defendants who controlled and managed the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation (YMT) without rights as an unlawful act; then punished and ordered the defendants not to manage the YMT Office on Jalan Zoo Number 6.

The plaintiffs asked the panel of judges to cancel all Deeds and Deeds of Peace made by Defendant II to be null and have no legal force; State Deed No. 12 dated July 21, 2025, which was made before Defendant II was flawed and had no legal force; Stated Deed No. 14 dated July 25, 2025, which was made before Defendant II, was flawed and had no legal force.

They also asked the court to order the defendants not to use attributes and, resources, infrastructure and equipment for the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation (YMT) since this case obtained binding legal force; Punish and order all defendants to pay material and immaterial compensation.

The material loss requested by the plaintiff was IDR 4.5 billion, which was referred to as the result of zoo management during the control of the defendants.

For immaterial losses, the plaintiff asked for Rp. 2 billion due to the disruption of his thoughts on this matter; and asked the judge to punish and order all defendants to pay Rp. 200 million for forced money (dwangsom) every day of delay to the plaintiffs if they are negligent/deliberately do not carry out their obligations to leave and still use their attributes, resources, infrastructure and equipment for the Tamansari Wildlife Foundation, since the lawsuit was registered.