Requests For Rehabilitation Of The Defendant Of The FPI Laskar Shooting, Lemkapi: All Charges Must Also Be Released

The trial of the defendant's "unlawful killing" member of Laskar FPI. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Executive Director of the Indonesian Police Strategic Studies Institute (Lemkapi) Dr Edi Hasibuan said the good names of the two police officers who were accused of shooting members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) must be rehabilitated after the judge acquitted them of criminal charges.

"Based on the judge's decision, the good names of the two Polda Metro Jaya members must be rehabilitated, released from all charges and all confiscated evidence returned," said Edi in a written statement quoted by Antara, Sunday, March 20.

Previously, on March 18, 2022, the Panel of Judges of the South Jakarta District Court ruled that two police officers who were accused of killing members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were free from criminal punishment, even though their crimes were proven.

The actions of Brigadier Fikri Ramadhan and Ipda Mohammad Yusmin Ohorella cannot be criminalized because they fall into the category of defense so that the two police officers cannot be punished and are released from all charges.

The two police officers were brought to court on charges of shooting dead six FPI members in December 2020 on the Cikampek toll road, West Java. The victims were Luthfi Hakim (25), Andi Oktiawan (33), Muhammad Reza (20), Ahmad Sofyan alias Ambon (26), Faiz Ahmad Syukur (22), and Muhammad Suci Khadavi (21).

At the previous trial, the prosecutor charged the two policemen with a sentence of six years in prison.

"We respect the decision of the South Jakarta District Court judge who has given a verdict regardless of the prosecutor's demands related to the shooting of FPI troops at Km 50, Cikampek Toll Road," said Edi Hasibuan.

The lecturer at Bhayangkara University, Jakarta, assessed that the judge's decision was in accordance with Article 49 of the Criminal Code, which regulates emergency or noodweer defense actions for oneself and for others.