Supreme Court Rejects Cassation, Former Bekasi DPRD Leader Remains Imprisoned For 3 Years

The panel of judges read out the verdict against the defendant Soleman (white shirt) for the corruption case of receiving gratuities at the Bandung Corruption Court on Wednesday (16/4/2025). ANTARA/Pradita Kurniawan Syah.

JAKARTA - The Supreme Court (MA) rejected legal remedies to file for the cancellation of the court's final decision after an appeal or cassation filed by the defendant, former leader of the Bekasi Regency DPRD, Soleman.

"Yes, that's right, it was rejected," said Head of the Administrative Affairs Agency of the Supreme Court Sobandi when contacted from Cikarang, Wednesday, as reported by Antara.

He said, with the decision to reject the cassation of the case in question, the court's decision at the previous level became legally binding.

Sobandi, who previously served as Head of the Legal and Public Relations Bureau of the Supreme Court, stated that all stages of filing until the cassation decision submitted by the relevant parties could be accessed widely by the public through the online page of information on cases.

"It can be accessed on the case information website of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia, mas, for all incoming cassation submissions," he said.

In the previous final decision, the Bandung High Court, West Java, granted the appeal of the team of public prosecutors for the corruption case of accepting bribes or gratuities that ensnared Soleman.

The appeal has been submitted by the team of public prosecutors of the Bekasi District Attorney's Office (Kejari) on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, after hearing the verdict of the Bandung Corruption Court against this case.

"The appeal decision is in accordance with our demands, a three-year sentence. If the cassation decision is rejected, what is being followed by our high court (compared) decision, but the cassation decision has not yet reached me," said Head of Special Investigation Unit of the Bekasi District Attorney's Office Ronald Thomas Mendrofa.

The Bandung High Court also granted the appeal of the public prosecutor's team regarding other related decisions, namely that the defendant was required to pay a fine of Rp. 250 million with the provision of a subsidiary sentence of three months.

The defendant was legally and convincingly proven to have violated Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.

The defendant was legally and convincingly proven to have accepted bribes in the form of two units of Mitsubishi Pajero luxury vehicles and a BMW sedan from the defendant Resvi Finia Pratama as the executor of a physical work project whose funds were sourced from the Bekasi Regency APBD.