JAKARTA - Defense Minister (Menhan) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said that military courts could punish soldiers who were accused of being perpetrators in the case of water spraying.
"If you were talking about watering, the punishment could be heavier," said Sjafrie in a working meeting with Commission I of the DPR in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 19, reported by ANTARA.
The Minister of Defense responded to a council member's question regarding the case of spraying hard water on KontraS activist Andrie Yunus.
According to him, the military court is not selective in punishing soldiers who are proven guilty. He said the military court had once sentenced a high-ranking officer to life imprisonment.
"You can ask the TNI, how many three-star, two-star, one-star are imprisoned? We don't see anyone. So, if it's a matter of military justice, it's not an easy matter, we do it," he said.
The Minister of Defense emphasized the integrity of the military justice.
"So, this is so that you know that military justice is of high value. Moreover, now there is a military oditur at the Attorney General's Office, there is a military court at the Supreme Court," he said.
It is known that the Jakarta Military Court II-08 is trying the case of water spraying against the Deputy Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) Andrie Yunus.
The four defendants, who are TNI soldiers, have been dragged to the green table, namely Sergeant Two Edi Sudarko, Lieutenant One (Lettu) Budhi Hariyanto Widhi, Captain Nandala Dwi Prasetya, and Lettu Sami Lakka.
The four defendants are threatened with criminal penalties as stipulated in Article 469 paragraph (1) or Article 468 paragraph (1) or Article 467 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 20 letter C of the National Criminal Code (KUHP).
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