Viral Angry Wife Drunk Husband Sued 1 Year In Prison, Attorney General Orders Special Examination Of Valency Case

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin ordered the Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes Fadil Zumhana to conduct a special examination related to the handling of the domestic violence case of defendant Valencya alias Nengsy Lim at the Karawang District Attorney.

"The Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes moved quickly as a form of the quick wins program by issuing an Order for the Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes to conduct a special examination of the handling of the case on behalf of the defendant Valencya Alias Nengsy Lim," said Head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information, Leonard Eben. Ezer Simanjuntak quoted by Antara, Monday, November 15.

The implementation of a special examination of the handling of the domestic violence case with the defendant Valencya who was sentenced to 1 year for scolding her drunken husband, Leonard continued, was carried out by interviewing nine people, both from the West Java High Prosecutor's Office, the Karawang District Attorney, and the public prosecutor (P- 16 A), Monday.

From the examination, a number of findings were obtained. First, from the pre-prosecution stage to the prosecution stage, the Karawang District Prosecutor's Office or the West Java High Prosecutor's Office were considered to have no sense of crisis, namely sensitivity in handling cases.

"In the provisions of Chapter II in Numbers 1 point 6 and point 7, the control of criminal charges in general criminal cases with the principle of equality handled at the Attorney General's Office or the High Prosecutor's Office is carried out by the head of the district attorney's office or the head of the branch of the district attorney's office as referred to in point (1) with continue to pay attention to the provisions in points (2), (3), and (4)," said Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak.

Third, the public prosecutor at the Karawang District Prosecutor's Office has postponed the reading of criminal charges four times on the grounds that the planned charges have not been submitted to the West Java High Prosecutor's Office. on Wednesday, October 28, received at the West Java High Prosecutor's Office on Thursday, October 29 and approved based on a criminal charge from the West Java High Prosecutor's Office with a telephone note, Wednesday, November 3. on Thursday, November 11th.

"Fourth, not following Guidelines Number 1 of 2021 concerning Access to Justice for Women and Children in Criminal Cases," said Leonard.

In addition, neither the Karawang District Prosecutor's Office nor the West Java High Prosecutor's Office adhere to the "Seven Daily Orders of the Attorney General" as a norm or rule in carrying out the task of handling the case.

"This can be interpreted as not carrying out the leadership's orders," Leonard said.

From the overall findings, he continued, it was concluded that the handling of the case for defendant Valencya would be directly controlled by the Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes.

The prosecutors who handle the case will also go through a functional examination by the Deputy Attorney General for Supervision. Furthermore, the assistant for general crimes at the West Java High Prosecutor's Office will be temporarily withdrawn to the Attorney General's Office to facilitate functional examinations.