The Prosecutor Is Not Ready Yet, The Trial Of The Claim For Embezzlement Of ACT Novariyadi Imam Akbari Fund Has Been Postponed

The atmosphere of the trial of the embezzlement of social assistance funds for the victims of the Lion Air plane crash by the Rapid Response Foundation (ACT) at the South Jakarta District Court/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court (PN) has postponed the trial of the charges against the former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rapid Response Foundation (ACT), Novariyadi Imam Akbari. Chairman of the Panel of Judges Hariyadi said the trial was postponed because the public prosecutor (JPU) had not finished compiling the charges against Novariyadi, who is a defendant in the alleged embezzlement of social assistance funds from the Boeing Community Investment Fund (BCIF) for the victims of the tragedy of the Lion Air plane crash in 2018. "Because the demands from the public prosecutor for the defendant Novariyadi Imam Akbari are not ready, the trial is postponed for one week and will be held again on January 31, 2023," said Hariyadi during a trial at the South Jakarta District Court, Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, January 24. Previously, the Public Prosecutor at the South Jakarta District Attorney's Office had charged Novariyadi along with three other defendants of embezzling social assistance funds from BCIF for victims of the Lion Air tragedy in 2018 with Article 374 and/or Article 372 in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code. The other three defendants were officials from the ACT Foundation, namely the founder and former President of the ACT Ahyudin Foundation, the President of the ACT Foundation for the 2019-2022 period Ibnu Kajar, and the former Vice President of Operational ACT Hariyana Hermain. On Tuesday (12/27/2022), the Public Prosecutor charged the three defendants with a sentence of four years in prison. The Public Prosecutor assessed that they were legally and convincingly proven to have embezzled in office, as stipulated in Article 374 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. The prosecutor said the ACT Foundation had used aid funds from BCIF worth IDR 117 billion from funds received amounting to IDR 138,546,388,500. Next, the funds they distributed to the victims of the Lion Air plane crash were only implemented at IDR 20,563,857,503 by the ACT Foundation. Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of other funds have been used by the defendants and are not in accordance with the implementation that has been agreed upon with Boeing.