NTB DPRD Members' Gratification Case Held

Mataram - The Mataram District Court (PN) held the first pretrial hearing for two suspects in the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Provincial DPRD gratification case on behalf of Indra Jaya Usman alias IJU and Hamdan Kasim alias HK.

The trial with the classification of case number: 23/Pid.Pra/2025/PN Mtr regarding the legality or not of the determination of the suspect is led by a single judge, Lalu Moh Sandi Iramaya.

The first trial was held today with the agenda of delivering the pretrial application material from both applicants through their respective lawyers.

"Accepting and granting the pretrial application from the first applicant, Indra Jaya Usman Putra and the second applicant, Hamdan Kasim for all of them," read the excerpt from the petition for the first point of the two applicants as quoted on the Mataram District Court's Case Search Information System (SIPP) page, Tuesday, quoted by Antara.

In the second point in the petition, the lawyer in the presence of the respondent from the NTB Prosecutor's Office, represented by two prosecutors, namely Fajar Alamsyah Malo and Budi Tridadi Wibawa, stated that the respondent's actions in designating the two applicants as suspects were arbitrary because they did not comply with procedures and were contrary to the law and declared invalid.

Furthermore, the third point states that it is null and void, invalid and has no binding legal force for the issuance of Investigation Order Number: PRINT-09/N.2/Fd.1/09/2025, dated September 17, 2025 to conduct an investigation of alleged criminal acts of corruption in the form of gratification by members of the NTB Provincial DPRD for the 2024-2029 period.

The fourth point in the petition states that it is null and void regarding the illegality and lack of binding legal force regarding the determination of suspects by the respondent by applying the presumption of Article 5 paragraph (1) letter b of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes.

The next point ordered the defendant to stop the investigation which had established the two applicants in the status of suspects.

English:

English:

Therefore, in the sixth point it is declared invalid and has no binding legal force for all further administrative investigations and their derivatives in the case as referred to in the Investigation Order Number: PRINT-09/N.2/Fd.1/09/2025, dated September 17, 2025.

The next point in a row also asked that the two applicants be released from the status of house arrest, stating that all decisions or determinations issued further by the respondent were invalid, and restoring all legal rights, good name, dignity and dignity of the applicants, and punishing the respondent to pay the costs of the case arising in the case a quo.

"If Your Honor the Judge thinks otherwise, please make the fairest decision (Ex Aequo Et Bono)," reads the last excerpt in the petitioners' petition.

After reading the pretrial application materials from both applicants, the single judge invited the prosecutor as the respondent to submit a response at the next hearing, Wednesday, December 17.