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Police reject lawyer's statement on Jokowi porn case
Advocate: Noted lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra, who is also a former law and human rights minister and Crescent Star Party (PBB) politician, speaks in a press conference during a book launch in Jakarta on Feb
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Advocate: Noted lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra, who is also a former law and human rights minister and Crescent Star Party (PBB) politician, speaks in a press conference during a book launch in Jakarta on Feb.6. (Kompas.com/Nabilla Tashandra) (PBB) politician, speaks in a press conference during a book launch in Jakarta on Feb.6. (Kompas.com/Nabilla Tashandra)
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span class="inline inline-center">Advocate: Noted lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra, who is also a former law and human rights minister and Crescent Star Party (PBB) politician, speaks in a press conference during a book launch in Jakarta on Feb.6. (Kompas.com/Nabilla Tashandra)
The deputy director of the special crimes unit at the National Police's Criminal Investigation Corps (Bareskrim), Sr. Comr. Agung Setya, rejected on Sunday a recent statement by noted lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra about the police's investigation into a defamation case against President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo.
He said it was not true that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) had returned the case dossier on Yusril's client Yulianus 'Ongen' Paonganan to Bareskrim and that the AGO had asked the police to complete the dossier with an explanation from President Jokowi, as recently claimed by the former law and human rights minister and Crescent Star Party (PBB) politician.
'There has been no request [from the AGO] for us to question the President,' Agung said as quoted by kompas.com on Sunday.
The police officer further said that Ongen was suspected of having spread pornographic content about Jokowi, not of defaming the President personally. Therefore, he added, police investigators did not need to get an explanation from Jokowi.
'Merely by diplaying pornographic content, a person can be prosecuted, no matter whether his or her act defames another person,' said Agung.
'The pornographic elements that investigators are currently examining are negative values that must be monitored and prevented from spreading further so that they will not damage the values and social order of society. That's all,' he went on.
Agung said the police were not influenced by Yusril's statements. The investigators would still focus on their work to complete Ongen's case dossier before they sent it again to the AGO.
The police named Ongen a suspect for allegedly spreading a pornographic message that read #papadoyanl***e, over a picture of President Jokowi and actress Nikita Mirzani.
Investigators from the police's Cyber Crime unit arrested Ongen in December 2015 and immediately detained him.
Yusril, as Ongen's lawyer, recently submitted a request for bail for his client. The police rejected the request and instead extended Ongen's detention period for another 30 days. (ebf)
