Violating Health Protocols, Jember Regent Family Marriage Committee Gets Fined IDR 10 Million

JEMBER - The organizing committee for the family wedding reception of the Regent of Jember, East Java, Hendy Siswanto was fined IDR 10 million for being found guilty of violating health protocols in a virtual trial held at the Jember Civil Service Police (Satpol PP) office.

The Jember Regency COVID-19 Task Force held a hearing for alleged violations of health protocols led by the presiding judge Totok Yanuarto. Meanwhile, the wedding party organizing committee who became the defendant, namely Zainul Fuad, was present virtually.

"Declaring that defendant Zainul Fuad is legally proven and guilty of disobeying government regulations and carrying out restrictions on community activities or PPKM and also violating health protocols," said presiding judge Totok Yanuarto, quoted by Antara, Friday, October 22.

Totok said that the defendant was declared to have violated the Minister of Home Affairs No. 47, 2021, East Java Provincial Regulation No. 2 of 2020 article 20, article 27A, article 27B, article 27C article 49 paragraph (6) regarding amendments to the East Java Provincial Regulation No. 1 of 2019 concerning the Implementation of Public Order and Protection of the Community.

"Furthermore, the judge sentenced the defendant to a fine of IDR 10 million or social work for 15 days and the defendant had to pay court fees of IDR 5.000," he said.

The witnesses who were presented at the trial were the Head of the General Crime (Pidum) of the Jember Police, Bagus Dwi Setyawan, an employee of a restaurant, Ratno Hadi and the artist Agus Yendra Imaniar and PPNS Investigator Yuvi R (Satpol PP).

Registrar Dion Pramesti Warsono said that the virtual trial that had been carried out was aimed at disciplining the rules that had been determined and did not look at any circles.

"If you violate the health protocol, you will be fined and a virtual trial will be held," he said.

Previously, there was a video circulating of the Regent of Jember Hendy Siswanto singing without wearing a mask or face shield while attending his nephew's wedding at a restaurant in Jember, even though the local district was still at Level 3 PPKM.

The COVID-19 Task Force processed the alleged violation of the health protocol by calling the committee and the person in charge of the wedding party.

Responding to this, Hendy apologized to the public for the incident that occurred when his nephew held a wedding reception, even though the number of invitations present was limited to 25 percent of the building's capacity.

"I apologize to the public because this activity has caused attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. We ask the committee to explain to the Task Force regarding this and once again I apologize for the incident," he said.