Case Of Tribal Children Shooting Plantation Company Security Guards, Prosecutors Presents Ballistics Expert Witness

A virtual trial of the shooting of the Anak Dalam Tribe (SAD) against the victim of a security guard in Jambi. (Antara)

JAMBI - The case of the shooting of the Anak Dalam Tribe (SAD) against the victim, a security guard for the plantation company PT Primatama Kreasi Mas (PKM) in Air Hitam, Sarolangun Regency, Jambi, continues to roll out in court.

The public prosecutor (JPU) presented a ballistic forensic expert witness in a follow-up trial which was held virtually on Tuesday, April 12.

"At the trial at the Sarolangun District Court (PN) which scheduled the examination of experts and the defendant in the criminal trial of the shooting of PT Primatama Kreasi Mas security guard by the three defendants Basile, Basayung, and Ngeleta, all the SAD residents were present as ballistic forensic expert witnesses," said the Head of the Law Information of Jambi Prosecutor's Office Lexy Fatharany, Wednesday 13 April.

During the trial, Public Prosecutors Hendri Aritonang and Rikson presented ballistic forensics expert Bayumi Akhirullah who is also a member of the Jambi Police Mobile Brigade.

In his statement in front of the trial, he stated that the evidence in the form of suffocation was an assembled tool similar to a weapon and after a ballistic test the tool could function properly as a firearm that could kill living creatures, people, and animals.

After hearing expert testimony, the three defendants Basile, Basayung, and Ngeleta confirmed it and he took a weapon after being chased away by PT PKM security while taking palm oil in the area considered still under the control of the Anak Dalam Tribe.

In this trial, the three SAD defendants, through their legal advisors, presented mitigating witnesses to be heard at the adjournment trial next week.

In the previous trial, the chronology of this case was when the three defendants Basile, Basayung, and Ngeleta on Friday, October 29, 2021, at approximately 15.30 western Indonesia time were in the Pos 2 security area of PT PKM Pematang Kabau Village, Air Hitam District, Sarolangun Regency, Jambi, which was finally discovered PT PKM security guard, the defendant was carrying a sack allegedly containing palm fruit.

Starting from the case, a fight broke out, and then the defendant took a short type of firearm to injure and kill the victim.

For these actions, the three defendants were charged with a combination of violating Article 170 (2) of the 2nd Criminal Code, 351 (2) of the Criminal Code or both Article 1 paragraph (1) of the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951 regarding firearms and the trial was postponed to next week for hearings witness testimony, said Lexy Fatharany.