JAKARTA - Patra M Zen, lawyer for Inspector General Ferdy Sambo's wife, Putri Candrawathi, confirmed that the family attorney of Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat or Brigadier J did not disclose information to the public based on assumptions.
According to him, all parties who issue statements related to the case of Brigadier J's death at the house of the Propam Police Division Head must be based on facts.
"I remind you that advocates are legal experts, not astrologers or magicians," said Patra, Wednesday, July 27.
Patra M Zen is known to be the Chairman of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) for the period 2006-2011.
Before being known in the legal world, Patra was a student of the Faculty of Law, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, graduated in 1998. He obtained a doctorate degree with a focus on Criminal Law at Krisnadwipayana University in 2020.
However, before he earned his doctorate, Patra had earned an LL.M degree when he studied for a year at the University of Essex, England in 2001. He took a concentration in International Human Rights Law.
Career
He started his career as an assistant public defender when he joined the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) South Sumatra in 1995.
While in South Sumatra, Patra was also active in the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) as Head of the Civic Education Compartment.
Apart from law and the environment, Patra is also involved in electoral activities in South Sumatra. He served as a researcher at the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) and the Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP) until 1999.
The next step is patra footing in Aceh Province. He became an assistant staff of LBH Banda Aceh in 2000. However, it did not take him long to move to the capital in the same year.
Patra applied his knowledge at LBH Jakarta as a staff of the YLBHI's Civil and Political Rights Division and Head of the Research, Publication and Education Division.
He was a documentist at the Human Rights Center while studying at the University of Essex in 2001-2002.
His career continued as a lecturer in the Indonesian Legal System course at Paramadina University from 2004-2007. His activities were interspersed with assignments as Indonesian Legal Literacy and Access to Justice Expert and Interpreter at British Council Indonesia which ended in 2007.
Between his last two activities, Patra served as Chair of YLBHI in 2006.
However, in 2008, he was busy with the National Planning and Development Agency (Bappenas) until 2008.
He is a member of the legal working group facilitated by Bappenas whose task is to prepare the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Blueprint in Aceh and North Sumatra.
Then, members of the KPP HAM Analysis Team of the Komnas HAM Incident of Wamena and Wasior, Papua.
In 2011, the man who was born in Jakarta in 1975 also had time to handle a major case with the defendant, the former chairman of the Democratic Party DPP, Anas Urbaningrum.
Patra was part of Anas' team of lawyers, who at that time was involved in the mega-corruption case of the Hambalang Athlete's Wisma project which was handled by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). In 2013, Anas was named a suspect by the KPK and was sentenced by a judge to 8 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 300 million subsidiary to 3 months in prison in February 2014.
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