Prosecutor Answers Pledoi Rizieq Shihab: Always Use Cut Stories, Direct Fact Witnesses To Opinion

JAKARTA - The Public Prosecutor (JPU) said that during the trial, Rizieq Shihab always directed the factual witnesses to give their opinion. The method that Rizieq uses is by asking questions in the form of parable stories.

The prosecutor's statement was conveyed when reading the replica or answer to the memorandum of defense (pledoi) from Rizieq Shihab in the case of the results of the swab test at the UMMI Hospital.

"If we re-reveal during the examination of witnesses and experts, it is the defendant who often asks for the opinion of factual witnesses by giving parables about the story of a father, son, and doctor," said the prosecutor during the trial at the East Jakarta District Court, Monday, June 14.

In addition, in the parable, Rizieq always cuts him up. That is, not using a complete story as stated in the indictment.

So, in that way, all the fact-witness witnesses that Rizieq questioned argued that the former FPI High Priest was not lying.

"With the imaginary story that was deliberately cut, it didn't tell us that the father had been tested for antigen and the result was antigen and the result was reactive," said the prosecutor.

"But the story only started when the father entered (the hospital) because he was tired and if the cut story was asked to a fact witness, of course the witness gave the answer not lying," continued the prosecutor

For this reason, the prosecutor considers Rizieq's method only to build the opinions of the witnesses. In fact, everything that happened was in accordance with what was stated in the indictment.

"This was all done by the defendant to build an opinion, justification that the defendant did not lie. Even though the story was cut and incomplete," said the prosecutor.