JAKARTA - The Supreme Court (MA) rejected the request for reconsideration (PK) submitted by the former Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Johnny Gerard Plate in the corruption case in the procurement of base transceiver station (BTS) 4G infrastructure for the Telecommunication and Information Accessibility Agency (Bakti) Kominfo in 2020-2022.
"Reject", said the PK Case Decision Number 919 PK/PID.SUS/2025 quoted from the Supreme Court Case Information page from Jakarta, Tuesday, May 13, was confiscated by Antara.
The PK decision was handed down by a panel of judges led by Supreme Court Justice Surya Jaya along with two members, Agustinus Purnomo Hadi and Sutarjo, on Friday 9 May.
With this PK decision, the punishment for Johnny Plate is the same as the verdict at the cassation level.
Previously, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (9 July 2024) rejected the appeal of the former Minister of Communication and Information.
Based on case cassation decision Number 3448 K/Pid.Sus/2024, the Constitutional Court stated that it rejected Johnny Plate's appeal with an repair of evidence in the form of a luxury car that was confiscated for the state.
"Improvements in the form of evidence in the form of a Land Rover car number B-10-HAN were confiscated for the state and taken into account as additional criminal compensation for payment of replacement money handed down to the defendant," said the excerpt of the cassation decision in question.
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It is known that Johnny Plate was sentenced to 15 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to 6 months in prison, as stated in the appeal decision of the DKI Jakarta High Court Number 1 / PID.SUS-TPK / 2024 / PT DKI.
The appeal decision which was pronounced on Monday (12 February 2024) upheld the verdict handed down by the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Wednesday (8 November 2023).
In addition to confirming the court's decision at the first instance, the appeals panel also changed the amount of replacement money charged to Johnny Plate, from Rp15.5 billion, a subsidiary to 2 years in prison to Rp16.1 billion and US$10,000, subsidiary to 5 years in prison.
In this case, Johnny Plate together with other defendants were considered to have caused state financial losses of Rp8.032 trillion.
Johnny Plate was declared legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption jointly violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.
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