Jakarta –
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) said that Bharada Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu (Bharada E) was not a justice collaborator (JC). Prosecutors have their own reasons or judgments why Bharada E was not called a justice collaborator.
Kapuspenkum Ketut Sumedana revealed that Eliezer was considered the executor or main actor in the premeditated murder of Brigadier Yosua Hutabarat. Bharada E is not the first to uncover legal facts.
“The offense committed by Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu as the executor, namely the main actor, is not a disclosure of legal facts,” Ketut said at a press conference at the AGO Building, quoted from Detik newsFriday (20/1/2023).
He stressed that the first party to uncover the murder case of Brigadier Yosua was the family. That was the main reason why the prosecutors judged that Eliezer was not JC.
“So he (Eliezer) is not a revealer. The first to disclose legal facts is the victim’s (Joshua) family. That is a matter for consideration,” said Ketut.
Ketut previously explained that Eliezer was the main perpetrator in the murder of Brigadier Yosua. Prosecutors assess that Eliezer’s role in this premeditated murder cannot be considered as JC.
“He is the main actor, so he cannot be considered as a person who must get a justice collaborator. This is also in accordance with Sema No. 4/2011 and the Law on Witness and Victim Protection,” said Ketut.
However, Ketut explained that the prosecutor had tried to accommodate the recommendations of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) regarding Eliezer. Ketut said that because of this, the public prosecutor charged Eliezer with a prison sentence of 12 years, much lighter than the charges against Ferdy Sambo, who was seen as the intellectual actor in Yosua’s murder.
“The recommendation from the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) against Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu to get JC has been accommodated in the indictment, so that the defendant gets a much lighter criminal charge than the defendant Ferdy Sambo, as the father intellectual perpetrator,” explained Ketut.
Ketut also explained that the status of a justice collaborator in premeditated murder was not regulated in Article 28 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims. In that regulation, according to Ketut, the protection of witnesses and victims is only for certain cases such as corruption, terrorism, and money laundering.
“That the case of premeditated murder is not included in Article 28 paragraph (2) letter a of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 2014 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims, which in essence is a criminal act to be uncovered as a crime in certain cases and also as stipulated in the Supreme Court Circular Letter No. 4 of 2011 includes corruption, terrorism, narcotics, money laundering, human trafficking, and other organized criminal acts,” said Ketut.
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