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Facebooker convicted for indecent chatting appeals to high court
A 47-year-old woman who was recently sentenced to five months' imprisonment for indecent chatting with her childhood friend in Bandung is appealing to the West Java High Court
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47-year-old woman who was recently sentenced to five months' imprisonment for indecent chatting with her childhood friend in Bandung is appealing to the West Java High Court.
'Today we are appealing the district court verdict,' said Suryantara, a lawyer who accompanied Wisti Yetti, on Monday.
Wisti was charged after her former husband reported her to the West Java Police for indecent chatting with her childhood friend, Nugraha Mursyid.
Suryantara said her client had decided to appeal the decision because the verdict did not reflect justice and was not made based on the facts presented during the trial.
'In addition, the judge's decision is far harsher than the sentence sought by the state prosecutor,' he said.
He added that Wisti's ex-husband could provide no evidence that that his client and Nugraha had been involved in indecent chatting on social media.
'My client's ex-husband presented only a copy of a Facebook chat, and a forensic test shows the two were not involved in any indecent chatting,' he said.
Besides being sentenced five months in prison for violating the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, Wisti was also fined Rp 100 million.
Meanwhile, Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara said the government was preparing several draft regulations to revise the ITE law, which he said had claimed many victims over the past seven years.
'We hope the revisions can be conducted by the end of this year,' he said.(++++)
