JAKARTA - The Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) continues to investigate the alleged defamation and slander case filed by the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo (Jokowi), regarding allegations of a fake diploma. In the latest development, investigators have questioned Silfester Matutina as a witness.
"Today, along with Mr. Ade Bayasid, I was summoned and asked to testify in the investigation, specifically regarding indications of incitement, defamation, slander, and violations of the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law filed by Mr. Joko Widodo," Silfester told reporters on Monday, August 4.
The alleged defamation and slander case has been escalated to the investigation stage. Investigators believe there are elements of a criminal offense in the report filed by Jokowi.
Despite the investigation, Silfester stated that the allegations of a fake diploma have been disproven. This refers to the results of the National Police Forensic Laboratory (Labfor) examination and the investigation conducted by the Directorate of General Crimes (Dittipidum) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim Polri).
"Regarding the allegations of fake diplomas, this has not been proven, and in the end, they were convicted by law for spreading false news," he said.
Silfester even highlighted the research conducted by Roy Suryo and his colleagues. According to him, they lacked the qualifications to declare Jokowi's Bachelor's degree (S1) from the Faculty of Forestry at Gajah Mada University (UGM) to be fake.
"I also want to say that, to this day, these accusations and research, as well as the research, are bogus, because I see that Roy Suryo and Rismon do not possess the certifications or qualifications to be researchers," he said.
As a reminder, the Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) stated that the alleged defamation case related to the fake diploma allegations reported by the 7th President, Joko Widodo (Jokowi), has been escalated to the investigation stage.
The decision to upgrade the case's status was based on a case review conducted by the State Security Sub-Directorate (Kamneg) on Thursday, July 10th.
This case began with an official report filed directly by President Jokowi with the Jakarta Metropolitan Police. He filed a complaint against parties accusing him of using a fake diploma as a form of defamation.
The report cited several articles in the Criminal Code (KUHP), namely Articles 310 and 311 concerning defamation. Investigators also applied Articles 27A, 32, and 35 of the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (UU ITE).
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