Kabareskrim: Case Of Alleged Hoax Denny Indrayana Regarding The Constitutional Court's Decision Rises Investigation

Kabareskrim Polri Komjen Agus Andrianto / PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police continues to investigate cases of spreading false news or hoaxes regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the 2024 Election system into a closed proportional system involving Denny Indrayana. Currently, the status of this case has been upgraded to the investigation stage.

"It has been handled by the Director of Cyber, it is in the investigation stage, it is still in the process," said the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, Komjen Agus Andrianto, to reporters, Monday, June 26.

The increase in the handling of the case to the investigation stage is believed to be a criminal offense. However, the process of examining witnesses and experts is still being carried out.

"It was still in the process and yesterday it happened at several demonstration locations, whether it was included in the scope of causing trouble or not, the expert's statement will determine," said Agus.

Former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights, Denny Indrayana was previously reported on suspicion of hate speech, fake news, insults to the authorities and leaks of state secrets to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police.

The report was made by a person with the initials AWW on Wednesday, May 31. The report is registered with Number: LP/B/128/V/2023/SPKT/Bareskrim Polri.

Meanwhile, the report was due to Denny on his Twitter account @dennyindranaya, claiming to have received information about the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the legislative election system which will return to the party voting.

"This morning I received important information. The Constitutional Court will decide on the legislative election to return to a closed proportional system, again choosing the party's image mark only," Denny said via a tweet on his Twitter account @dennyindranaya.

In his tweet, Denny also mentioned the source in the Constitutional Court. Although he did not answer clearly, Denny confirmed that the source was not a constitutional judge.

"Who is the source? The person I really trust is credibility, who is definitely not a Constitutional Judge," he said.

However, Denny denied that he leaked state secrets after revealing the claims of the information obtained. Denny said he did not use the phrase '... get a leak' when delivering his statement.

"Please listen carefully. I have carefully chosen the phrase '... get the information," he said.

"Not... 'got a leak'. No verdict was leaked because we all know that there has been no decision. I wrote '... the Constitutional Court will decide'. Still, it has not been decided," continued Denny.

However, the Constitutional Court in the plenary session decided that the electoral system would continue to use an open proportional scheme.