In the hearing at the Agriculture Ministry building in South Jakarta, First Brig. Ahmad Hamdani, an officer with the Bogor Police, told the North Jakarta District Court’s panel of judges that he unintentionally made an error when he typed the date of the report.

Wilyudin Abdul Rasyid filed the report with the police on Oct. 7, 2016 or one day after he watched a video of Ahok's controversial speech delivered in Thousand Islands regency on Sep. 27, 2016.

However, Ahmad stated in the report that Wilyudin watched the video on Sep. 6 or three weeks before Ahok made the speech.

"How can the report be filed before the speech took place? It is clear that you have made some errors," presiding judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told Ahmad, who testified in the hearing as a witness.

Ahmad said he should have typed the report more carefully.

“I did not check the calendar [when typing the report]. I should have done that to make sure there were no errors,” he said.

Wilyudin’s report also raised suspicion because it was written that Ahok’s alleged blasphemy speech took place in Tegallega, Bogor, West Java, not on the island regency.

It was later revealed the Tegallega reference was referring to Wilyudin’s house where he watched Ahok’s speech. “He filed the report after he watched the governor’s speech in a video at his house in Tegallega,” the officer said. (ebf)

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