PBHI Asks Colonel Priyanto To Be Responsible For Paying Victim Restitution

Colonel Priyanto/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) said the defendant in the murder of two teenagers in Nagreg, West Java, Colonel Infantry Priyanto, must be responsible to the victim's family by paying restitution. ) must be held accountable too," said PBHI chairman Julius Hebrew as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, June 7. PBHI is of the view that if the defendant does not want to pay restitution, the state or the TNI institution must be present to provide compensation for the victim or his family. The reason for paying compensation is because from the start the case was taken over by the Military Court. This means, he continued, that the military feels that the case is the duty of the state in a military context. "He must also be responsible to the victim, not just a trial," he explained. According to him, if the restitution or compensation payments to the two victims are not fulfilled, the verdict of the Jakarta High Military Court II against Colonel Infantry Priyanto still does not reflect a sense of justice for Handi Saputra and Salsabila. PBHI sees the push for restitution or compensation payments from the perspective of the age of the victim who is still relatively young and classified as productive age, he said.