Observer Warns of the Dangers of Opinion Trials After the Appearance of Code '1' for the Director General of Customs in the Importation of Goods Case 

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JAKARTA - The case of alleged bribery of the import of goods involving PT Blueray Cargo entered a new phase after the emergence of code numbers and envelopes associated with officials of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) in the trial. The public is asked to carefully read the presented facts.

This was conveyed by Gautama Wiranegara as a Specialist in Counter Intelligence Analysis after the prosecutor revealed that there was an envelope with the code '1' which was allegedly for the Director General of Customs and Excise Djaka Budi Utama at the trial of the import of goods, Wednesday, May 21.

"Pre-trial innocence is not a tool to protect corruptors. It exists to ensure that the state does not punish someone based on public assumptions," Gautama told reporters, Friday, May 22.

Gautama assessed that in criminal law there is a fundamental difference between the terms 'for someone' and 'accepted by someone'.

Moreover, the recipient at that time was Rizal as the Director of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (P2 DJBC) for the period 2024-2026 based on the confession of Orlando Hamonangan who is the Head of the Customs Intelligence Section I of the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.

"Based on Orlando Hamonangan's confession at the trial, which was actually dug up by the legal advisor, the code 1 envelope was received by Rizal, not automatically by the Director General," he said.

This condition makes him ask all parties to be careful considering the case of importing this item has a complex construction.

Starting from technical operators, informal communication channels, to the possibility of using certain symbols of office in operational practices. According to Gautama, don't let tunnel vision appear, which is a situation when investigators and the public are too quick to believe one direction of the narrative and force other facts to follow the conclusions that have been formed.

"This is dangerous. The Blueray Cargo matter has a complex relational structure, there are technical operators, intelligence, informal channels to possible structural shields," he said.

Furthermore, Gautama highlighted the possibility of a pattern of legitimacy shielding or legitimacy shield. In this pattern, the name of the superior or the symbol of the position is used to build influence, legitimacy, and even pressure on other parties.

"If this pattern occurs, the name of the leader can be sold without the leader understanding the entire operational structure. Names can be used, positions can be sold, envelopes can be coded, but the law must stand on evidence, not assumptions," he concluded.

As previously reported, the KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU) displayed a photo of a coded envelope while examining the Head of the DJBC Intelligence Section, Orlando Hamonangan alias Ocoy, who was presented as a witness. Based on the evidence possessed by the prosecutor, the code "Sales 2-1 DIR" is said to refer to the quota for Djaka Budi Utama.

In the trial of the import of goods, the prosecutor charged three Blueray Cargo leaders. They are John Field as the head of Blueray Cargo, Deddy Kurniawan Sukolo as the Operations Manager of Blueray Cargo, and Andri as the head of the Blueray Cargo document team.

The three were charged with providing Rp61.3 billion in the form of Singapore dollars. In addition to money, prosecutors said, the three were also accused of providing a number of facilities and luxury goods worth Rp1.8 billion.