REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Secretary of the Central Board of Muhammadiyah Youth, Pedri Kasman, said that the exception in the alleged blasphemy case with Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) as the defendant was not based on proper law. He argued that the exception had included the plea. ”What was delivered by the legal advisors tends to distort the facts. The exception was clearly and evidently showed that they did not understand the elements and arguments which are mentioned in article 156a of the Criminal Code," he said, Wednesday (12/14).

According to Pedri, many terms and conditions mentioned in the exception were not relevant to the prosecutor's indictments. For example, the legal advisors called the videos uploaded by Buni Yuni, whereas none of the complainants submitted the video as evidence. "And the video has been tested by the investigators and the forensic laboratory test had proven that it was not being edited,” he said.

Pedri believed that the public prosecutors would be able to respond the exception very carefully and to prove that Ahok meets the elements of crime as mentioned in the article 156a of the Criminal Code. He said that the inaugural session was enough to convince the judges that Ahok was worth to be convicted as a blasphemer. The prosecutors just need to sharpen the charges with evidence and witness testimony.

Related to the indictments, Pedri said the charges had been very clear for the offenders. The crime scene and the criminal offenses indicted were obvious. "We ask the public prosecutor to sharpen the use of indictments with evidence and corroborating witnesses," he said.

He added that the prosecutors were also requested to strengthen the indictments by inviting sufficient witnesses of fact and the expert witnesses. Pedri insisted that Muhammadiyah Youth as one of the groups filed the report to police was ready to assist the prosecutors.

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