Governor Viktor Laiskodat Complains The Head Of The Action To The NTT Police About Defamation

NTT Governor VIktor Laiskodat/ANTARA

KUPANG - East Nusa Tenggara Governor Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat reported the chairman of the Anti-Corruption People's Alliance (ARAKSI) NTT Alfred Baun to the NTT Police on suspicion of defamation.

"We have reported this case to the NTT Police because the accused committed a criminal act of defamation and insult to the Governor of NTT Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat," said Head of the Legal Bureau of the NTT Provincial Secretariat Alex Lumba in Kupang, quoted by Antara, Thursday, August 5.

Alex Lumba who was accompanied by the Head of the Protocol and Communications Bureau for the Head of the Regional Secretariat of NTT Province Marius Ardu Jelamu said that the official report was on July 26 2021 with a police report Number: LP/B/231/VII/Res.1.14/2021/SPKT Polda NTT.

According to him, the legal action was taken because of the statement by the Head of the NTT Action, which was reported by a number of online media in NTT, that the Governor of NTT Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat and the DPRD as namkak or gaping in connection with the planned loan for economic recovery (PEN) amounting to Rp.492 billion to PT SMI as form of humiliation.

He considered that Alfred Baun's statement, who is also a former member of the NTT Provincial DPRD, was unethical because he attacked Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat in his capacity as Governor of NTT or personally.

"The funds are still in the proposal plan and are in the process of the NTT Provincial DPRD. How could he (Alfred Baun) say there was dishonesty and an intention to steal state money," said Alex Lumba.

According to him, the NTT Provincial Government has fully handed over the legal process to the NTT Police.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Protocol and Communications Bureau for the Regional Secretariat of the NTT Province, Marius Ardu Jelamu, said that the report was aimed at straightening out and learning lessons for the people in this island-based province so that the criticisms made were constructive.