Having Not Fulfilled The Sense Of Justice, The Prosecutor Files An Appeal Against The 2.5-Year-Old Verdict Achsanul Qosasi

The trial for reading the decision of the Panel of Judges on the case of supervising the BTS 4G BAKTI Kominfo project at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor), Thursday (20/6/2024). ANTARA/Agatha Olivia Victoria.

JAKARTA - The Public Prosecutor (JPU) filed an appeal regarding the 2.5-year sentence against the former Angota III of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Achsanul Qosasi, in a series of corruption cases in the 4G BTS project at Bakti Kominfo. Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, said that the prosecutor's team had declared an appeal on Tuesday, June 25. "Yes (submitting an appeal), then the prosecutor will compile a memorandum of appeal," Harli told reporters, Thursday, June 27. The prosecutor's team is said to have a reason behind the decision to appeal the verdict from the panel of judges. One of them is because the decision is considered unfair. This is because during the trial Achsanul Qosasi admitted that he received Rp40 billion in cash. "Of course, in the memorandum of appeal, the prosecutor will describe the reasons and consider that the decision has not fulfilled the public's sense of justice," said Harli. Achsanul was legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption as in the third alternative indictment of the public prosecutor, namely Article 11 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.

Thus, Achsanul Qosasi was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and a fine of IDR 250 million in the case of BTS 4G BAKTI Kominfo project in 2021. The verdict is lighter than the demands of the public prosecutor, namely a five-year prison sentence and a fine of Rp. 500 million, subsidiary to six months in prison.