The Indonesia Post – The panel of judges at the Palembang District Court sentenced five students who participated in the demonstration of the Omnibus Law on Cipta Kerja on October 8, 2020 in Palembang because they were considered proven to have committed anarchism.
The presiding judge, Sahlan Effendi, on Thursday said that the five defendants, respectively Naufal Imandalis, Rezan Septian, Bartha Kusuma, Awaabin Hadiz and Haidar Maulana, were found guilty of violating Article 170 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code for damaging a car belonging to the South Sumatra Regional Police, but he considered the defendants unnecessary served a period of detention.
“Ordered the public prosecutor to immediately remove the five defendants from the detention center,” said Sahlan when reading out the verdict, in Palembang, Thursday.
He explained that the five defendants did not need to serve the 10-month prison sentence, but if the defendants committed any criminal action for one year and six months after submission, the defendants automatically served 10 months in prison.
The verdict was contrary to the demands of the South Sumatra High Prosecutor’s Office, which demanded that the five defendants be sentenced to two years in prison.
The panel of judges said that the prosecutor’s demands were burdensome to the defendants and not classified as a lesson sentence, besides that the five of them had never served criminal sentences before so that it became a reminder of the verdict.
In the trial, which was closely guarded by the police and witnessed by dozens of students from various universities, the judge also considered the spontaneous actions of the five when they destroyed a car belonging to the South Sumatra Regional Police.
After hearing the verdict, the five defendants and their legal advisors stated that they accepted and were ready to undergo probation, while the prosecutor chose to think about it.
“Based on the decision of the panel of judges, the five defendants must be released from detention today,” said the defendant’s legal adviser from Posbankum PN Palembang, Romaita.
Previously in 2020 the wave of rejection of the Ciptaker Law in Palembang lasted from 7-9 October in the South Sumatra DPRD Simpang Lima area, the police arrested more than 500 people and five of them were named as suspects after the riots on October 8. (ray/bbs)
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