Someone is charged with a crime, goes to court and has a chance to defend his innocence, which he maintains until proven guilty.

That'€™s how it always used to work. Did something change? If he is innocent, as he claims, and has a good lawyer, which I am sure he can arrange, then he has nothing to be afraid of.

Deedee S

I hope Suryadharma knows how his corruption hurts the poor.

Sukajadi

Even if like Budi you win the hearing, that doesn'€™t mean you are not guilty. The investigation will continue.

Jaytee

Corruption is killing Indonesia. Maybe it'€™s already dead in the eyes of the world. The police, judiciary and government, the selected few or those that have paid huge sums to be involved, are just screwing the average law abiding, hard-working, humble Indonesian citizen.

Glenn C

Being a suspect does not mean you are guilty. That'€™s why you are being investigated and facing trial.

The fact that you are trying to avoid this means either you are guilty (or have something to hide) or you don'€™t trust the Indonesian legal system.

John Elliott

People are not thinking straight. He will lose the case. People are not thinking in terms of self-interest. If everyone can file pretrial motion and win, the biggest losers are the judges, the Attorney General'€™s Office and the lawyers '€” what'€™s the point of hiring lawyers if this is the case?  

The whole corrupt legal system in Indonesia means that once a case goes to trial, the process
sucks money out of the defendant'€™s accounts.

Pretrial motions allow people to potentially increase their prospects of going free. Maybe at first, these people will win, but after a while a judge or the attorney general is going to catch on and make it very difficult to win.  

It'€™s not in the interest of a corrupt legal system, even in the medium term, to have pretrial motions that can change a suspect'€™s status.

Remember, a pretrial motion can potentially be used for all sorts of cases, not just the KPK'€™s. No corrupt legal system will allow this to continue.

Weilim

This is another case of injustice. First a corrupt cop, now the former religious affairs minister. Only the '€œvery best'€ are filing pretrial motions. Life is grand.

Willo

Nice work by Budi Gunawan on opening up the flood gates. If you didn'€™t steal money from those who placed their life savings in your hands and trusted you with it so they could go on the haj pilgrimage, if you didn'€™t use their funds to instead send your friends and family on haj, then show us the proof. It'€™s all political, bringing to light the fact that Suryadharma has stolen money but the KPK can'€™t show the state'€™s losses.

This logic lends to the fact that you can '€œborrow'€ state funds for personal use or political party use at any time, as long as it doesn'€™t show direct state losses. So let'€™s take haj funds, or education funds, or even medical funds, the list goes on.

Anyway, everyone'€™s favorite graft supporting judge Sarpin is being investigated for his gross negligence and abuse of power. He will not get any promotions and will be moved to Papua, where he can support graft there. I suppose the best thing would be to fire him.

Deddy K

I bet that now everyone suspected by the KPK will file pre-trial motions and it will be extremely tiresome to call them for '€œinterviews'€.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will clarify the issue, otherwise the KPK will be completely powerless, since every suspect will make that move.

Norris

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