Coordinating Minister Yusril Affirms There Will Be No Pretrial Delpedro Intervention

Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra/ANTARA PHOTO/Indrianto Eko Suwarso/rwa.

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Correction Yusril Ihza Mahendra emphasized that the government and the National Police will not intervene in legal proceedings in court, especially in the pretrial of suspects related to demonstrations that led to chaos in August 2025, Delpedro Marhaen and his friends.

Yusril made this statement in response to an open letter written by Delpedro, as uploaded on the Instagram account @lbh_jakarta.

"The pretrial can be granted, can be rejected, it can also be declared unacceptable or Niet Ontvankelijke verklaard (N.O.), all depending on the facts and arguments revealed at trial," said Yusril as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, October 16.

Therefore, Yusril asked Delpedro and other suspects to focus on the substance of the pretrial lawsuit.

In a letter written on October 14, 2025 and uploaded by @lbh_Jakarta, Delpedro asked Coordinating Minister Yusril to be able to ensure that investigators are present at the first pretrial hearing of his case which will be held on Friday (17/10).

Yusril said that those who attended the trial, whether the respondent, investigator, or not, would depend on who was given power by the respondents of the Polda Metro Jaya.

He explained that the pretrial trial only lasted a maximum of seven days. If the defendant, in this case Polda Metro Jaya, represented by investigators or anyone authorized to not attend, the trial will continue.

However, he ensured that the Polda Metro Jaya would attend the pretrial hearing on the second summons.

According to him, on the first call, they may not attend, but on the second call they can be sure they are present.

"Because if you don't attend, the judge will continue the trial without the presence of the Respondent. The police will definitely lose," he said.

Yusril asked Delpedro and his friends to prepare the contents of the pretrial lawsuit as well as possible.

One of them, said the Coordinating Minister, did not mix formal (formil) and material (material) lawsuits and was not included in the main case that was suspected of the suspects.

Based on Article 77 of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP), he stated that the pretrial object being tested is whether or not the arrest and whether or not the detention is legal.

After the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK), he continued, the pretrial could also test whether or not the determination of the suspect was valid, including whether or not the search and confiscation were legal.

The Director of Lokataru Foundation Delpedro Marhaen together with Lokataru Foundation Staff Muzaffar Salim, Admin Gejayan Calling Syahdan Husein, and Riau University students as well as social media activist Khariq Anhar submitted a pretrial to the South Jakarta District Court regarding the legal process and the determination of suspects related to last August's demonstration.

Delpedro's pretrial lawsuit is registered with case number 132/Pid.Pra/2025/PN JKT.SEL. Defendant or Respondent in this case, namely the Director of Cyber Investigation and the Director of General Criminal Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya.