2 Suspects Free From Detention, Indosurya KSP Victims Will Demo Next Week

ILLUSTRATION DOC VOI/Police Headquarters

JAKARTA - Victims of the Indosurya Savings and Loan Cooperative (KSP) fraud will take to the streets. This step was taken after the two suspects in this case were released from the prison because their detention period had expired.

"This is what worries us, that's why around 2,000 of these victims want to protest. I already got the information (free suspect, ed)," said the attorney for the victim of KSP Indosurya, Alvin Lim from LQ Law Firm Indonesia to reporters, Saturday, June 25.

The plan, continued Alvin, the victims will hold a demonstration on Tuesday, June 28. The long march was carried out from the National Police Headquarters to the Attorney General's Office starting at 11.00 WIB.

"Tuesday at 11.00 WIB at Headquarters, at 13.00 WIB at the AGO. So from Headquarters, we will go on a long march to the Attorney General's Office. First, go to Headquarters to find information, because this file is still at Headquarters, so the victims want to ask first, then they go to Headquarters. The Attorney General's Office, so outside the city, they come by plane from Surabaya, from Ujung Pandang," he said.

Furthermore, Alvin said that investigators' files were always returned by the Attorney General's Office with a note asking all victims of the alleged fraud to be examined. In fact, there were tens of thousands of victims.

This is certainly not in accordance with Article 185 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which states that witness testimony is only required from two people. So, this surprised Alvin.

"I got information from the Attorney General's Office, so it's as if they have a file that is considered incomplete, because why, because there were prosecutors' instructions which they didn't comply with by Headquarters. So when I asked for the P19, so I got it from the AGO, it was given, now I read the instructions number 90, the instructions contain that all victims throughout Indonesia must be examined, there are 15,600 victims, if all victims are examined it will not be completed on time," he said.

"According to Article 185 of the Criminal Procedure Code, there are at least two witness statements. There is evidence of witness testimony, expert testimony, defendants, evidence of instructions. So if you want to examine the victim, it becomes witness testimony. There is already witness testimony, why should all the victims in Indonesia be included," Alvin added.

Previously, two suspects in the Indosurya Savings and Loans Cooperative (KSP) case had been released from the detention center because their prison terms had expired. In fact, the case files had previously been transferred by investigators from the Dittipideksus Bareskrim Polri to the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung).

"Yes (the suspect is free, ed), his detention period is over for 120 days," said the Director of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan when confirmed, Saturday.

Whisnu confirmed that this case was still ongoing. The three suspects are Henry Surya as the Chairman of KSP Indosurya; Cooperative Director Manager Suwito Ayub, whose whereabouts are still being pursued; and Head Admin, June Indria.