14 Times to Attend the Trial with 38 Witnesses, Kerry Riza Gives Message to the Media

JAKARTA - The trial of the alleged corruption case in the management of crude oil and refinery products of PT Pertamina with the defendant, Riza Chalid's son, Kerry Adrianto Riza, was held at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court (tipikor) on Tuesday, January 13.

The defendant's legal team said that although the trial had entered the fourteenth time by presenting thirty-eight witnesses, none of them had named Kerry Riza guilty.

Beneficial owner of Navigator Equatorial, who is also a defendant in the alleged corruption case of crude oil and refinery products at PT Pertamina Kerry Adrianto Riza, was present at the Central Jakarta Tipikor trial with the agenda of listening to witness testimony.

Although he was not given the opportunity to speak in front of the media, Kerry through his handwritten letter read by his lawyer, Heru Widodo, said he had undergone 14 trials with 38 witnesses present.

"Friends, today is my 14th trial. And from all the trials, 38 witnesses have been summoned by the prosecutor and none of them have said that I have violated the law as in my indictment," said Heru reading Kerry's letter.

Kerry invites the public to see the matter that entangled him in its entirety based on the facts of the trial and not slander.

For this reason, Kerry invited the public to fully watch the trial process uploaded to his lawyer team's YouTube channel account, with the account name @Tim Penasehat Hukum Kery Gading Dimas.

"Let's make a stance based on facts, not slander and unclear information," he said.

The same thing was also conveyed by Kery's legal team, Patra M Zein, where until the 14th trial with the presence of 38 witnesses, no one mentioned his client was guilty.

The prosecutor said that if the lease of the tank after it expired could belong to Pertamina, but after being investigated, there was no tank lease carried out by Pertamina to third parties, both private and Pertamina subsidiaries after the lease expired.

"So what is conveyed basically is only oponi, people should not be prosecuted for opinions, people should not be prosecuted for assumptions of charges, people should not be prosecuted for charges that are only imagination," said Patra in a statement received, Wednesday, January 14, 2026.