'€œThe ruling is final and legally binding. According to the MA, an appeal for a case review can be made once, for both criminal and civil cases,'€ Suhadi said as quoted by Antara on Wednesday. He was speaking at a press conference at the Supreme Court complex in Jakarta.

Suhadi asserted that given the ruling, the Supersemar Foundation had no further legal recourse in the case. '€œA PK cannot be filed against a court ruling on a PK,'€ he said.

In the previous trial on July 8, presiding judge Suwardi along with judges Soltoni Mohdally and Mahdi Sorinda, granted a PK filed by the government against the Soeharto family and rejected a PK submitted by the Supersemar Foundation against the government. The court, in its finding, ordered former president Soeharto'€™s family, as well as the foundation, to pay the state US$315 million plus Rp 139.2 billion ($10.02 million), which amounts to around Rp 4.4 trillion according to today'€™s rates.

With its PK ruling on July 8, MA also corrected an error a court clerk had made when typing the ruling for the original Supersemar case, heard at a trial in 2010 before judge Harifin Tumpa and two panel members, Rehngena Purba and Dirwoto.

In the trial, the judges decided that the Soeharto family, as the first defendant, and the Supersemar Foundation, as the second defendant, would pay $315 million plus Rp 139.2 billion to the state. In transcripts, however, the MA clerk recorded the rupiah amount as Rp 139.2 million instead of Rp 139.2 billion. (ebf)

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