Proven Guilty, M Kece Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

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JAKARTA - The Ciamis District Court, West Java, sentenced the defendant in the blasphemy case, M Kece, to a sentence of 10 years in prison and a reduced term of detention in accordance with the demands of the public prosecutor.

"The defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison, reduced by the time during the arrest and handling," said Chief Justice Vivi Purnamawati when reading the verdict for the trial of the blasphemy case at the Ciamis District Court, Wednesday, April 6, quoted from Antara.

The chief judge conveyed that defendant M Kece, based on the results of the trial, was legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing the crime of broadcasting false news or reporting.

M Kece's actions also intentionally caused trouble among the community, for that his actions were legally processed as regulated and threatened with crime in Article 14 paragraph 1 of Law No. 1 of 1946 concerning the Criminal Law Regulations, in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

The verdict against the defendant was in accordance with the demands of the public prosecutor for 10 years in prison, and did not provide leniency to M Kece.

Vivi conveyed that things that could lighten the defendant's sentence, namely being polite and having never received a sentence were considered disproportionate to his actions that repeatedly tarnished the religion of Islam.

In addition, he continued, the thing that weighed on him was because the defendant had the intention of sharing deviant teachings of prayer, which was then deliberately spread through the internet so that it not only disturbed Muslims in Indonesia but throughout the world.

"The panel of judges is of the opinion that his degree can be equated with people who have been convicted," he said.

After reading the verdict, the panel of judges asked the defendant to respond to the verdict. "Still thinking about it," said the defendant M Kece.

The trial of the blasphemy case was then closed, then the defendant was immediately taken to Ciamis Prison under strict police guard and guard.

M Kece's attorney, Martin Lukas Simanjuntak, said that the judge's decision was disappointing because there was no mitigating factor for the defendant.

According to the facts that can mitigate, he said, the defendant was never convicted and behaved well during the trial, this is in other cases a consideration for leniency. "This is very unfair," he said.