Prevent Legal Intervention, 30 Prosecutors Who Handle Ferdy Sambo Case Will Be Placed In Safe House

Former Head of the Propam Police Division Inspector General Ferdy Sambo after attending the KKEP session at the National Police Headquarters, Jakarta, Friday, August 26 in the morning. (ANTARA-M Risyal Hidayat)

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has prepared 30 Public Prosecutors (JPU) to handle the premeditated murder case against Nopriansyah Yosua Hutabarat alias Brigadier J. The prosecutors will be placed in a safe house.

The head of the Prosecutor's Commission, Barita Simanjuntak, said that this step was taken to anticipate unprofessionalism in the prosecution process.

"The steps are planned to be taken in order to ensure that the JPU team works well, professionally, safely, to facilitate coordination and to avoid technical reasons in the prosecution process," Barita told VOI, Thursday, September 29.

In addition, the plan to place dozens of prosecutors also aims to avoid legal intervention by certain parties.

Thus, it has an impact on the occurrence of injustice and injures the law enforcement process.

"Including the public's concern about the alleged 'intervention outside the law' in this case. So this must be a concern, among others, to protect and protect the prosecutors on duty so that they work with professionalism and integrity," said Barita.

The Attorney General's Office is known to have stated that the files of the suspects in the premeditated murder case against Brigadier J and the obstruction of justice case are complete. The suspects will soon be on trial.

In the case of the premeditated murder of Brigadier J, there are five suspects. They are Ferdy Sambo, Putri Chandrawahti, Bripka Ricky Rizal, Bharada Richard Eliezer, and Strong Ma'ruf.

They were charged with Article 340 subsidiary 338 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) and Article 56 of the Criminal Code.

Then, the case of obstruction of justice. There are seven suspects in this case. They are Ferdy Sambo, Brigadier General Hendra Kurniawan, Kombes Agus Nur Patria, Commissioner Chuck Putranto, Commissioner Baiquni Wibowo, AKBP Arif Rachman Arifin, and AKP Irfan Widyanto.

They are suspected of violating Article 49 in conjunction with Article 33 and/or Article 48 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 32 paragraph (1) Number 19 of 2016 UU ITE. In addition, they were also charged with Article 55 paragraph (1) and/or Article 221 paragraph (1) 2 and/or Article 233 of the Criminal Code.