JAKARTA - The attorney for the Secretary General of PDIP, Hasto Kristiyanto, Febri Diansyah, stated that his client's order to Donny Tri Istiqomah to file a judicial review of the General Election Commission Regulation (KPU) to the Supreme Court (MA) was a legal effort.
This affirmation was conveyed when reading the memorandum of defense or pledoi of the alleged bribery case for the arrangement of the DPR's time (PAW) for the 2019-2024 period and the obstruction of Harun Masiku's investigation with the defendant Hasto Kristiyanto.
"The order that the defendant gave to Donny Tri Istiqomah was a legal effort and was based on the party's decision," Febri said during a trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday, July 10.
The lawsuit concerns the provisions of Article 54 paragraph (5) letter K of KPU Regulation Number 3 of 2019 concerning Voting and Vote Calculation in General Elections. The move relates to the vote acquisition of Nazarudin Kiemas who died and was dropped from DCT (Dafat Candidate) South Sumatra electoral district-1
The order became legal because it was based on the results of the Plenary Meeting of the PDIP DPP which was held in July 2019. Because the order contained Harun Masiku's decision as the elected candidate to receive Nazarudin Kiemas' votes in the amount of 34,276 votes.
"On the basis of the decision of the PDIP DPP plenary meeting, Hasto Kristiyanto as the PDIP secretary general asked Donny Tri Istiqomah to always be a PDIP legal adviser to submit a letter of application to the Indonesian KPU," said Febri.
This was also supported by Donny Tri Istiqomah's statement in the trial which stated that he was officially assigned an assignment by being given a letter of assignment.
"The assignment from the PDI-P DPP to conduct a judicial review to the Supreme Court is based on a letter of assignment. However, because it is a material test, the assignment letter is in the form of a power of attorney," said Febri.
It is known that Hasto was charged by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) with 7 years in prison. In addition, the prosecutor also charged Hasto Kristiyanto with a fine of Rp. 600 million. If it is not paid, it will be replaced with a prison sentence of 6 months.
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In this case, Hasto was charged together with advocate Donny Tri Istiqomah, former PDIP cadre Saeful Bahri, and Harun Masiku were charged with giving bribes of Rp 600 million to Wahyu Setiawan (KPU commissioner) in the 2019-2020 period.
This bribe is so that Wahyu seeks the KPU to approve the application of PAW for the South Sumatra Election Candidate (Sumsel) I on behalf of DPR members for the 2019-2024 period Riezky Aprilia to Harun Masiku.
Hasto was also charged with obstructing the investigation by ordering Harun, through the Aspiration House guard, Nur Hasan, to submerge Harun's cell phone into the water after the KPK OTT incident against Wahyu Setiawan.
Not only Harun Masiku's cellphone, Hasto is also said to have ordered his aide, Kusnadi, to drown his cell phone in anticipation of forced attempts by KPK investigators.
Hasto was charged with Article 21 and Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 13 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 65 paragraph (1) and Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
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