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Police to reopen blasphemy case against UI lecturer
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University of Indonesia (UI) lecturer Ade Armando speaks to journalists after attending questioning at the Jakarta Police headquarters on June 23, 2016. (Kompas.com/ Akhdi Martin Pratama)
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he Jakarta Police are set to reopen an investigation into a case of alleged blasphemy involving University of Indonesia (UI) lecturer Ade Armando following a South Jakarta District Court ruling on Monday.
The court's sole judge Aris Bawono Langgeng has fulfilled a pretrial hearing request filed in February by Johan Khan, a man who accused Ade of blasphemy in 2015, to challenge the police’s issuance of an investigation termination warrant (SP3) regarding the case.
Aris said the police had not examined some evidence provided by Johan, meaning that the SP3 was illegal and the investigation should continue.
The director of the special crimes unit, Sr. Comr. Ade Deriyan, said on Tuesday the police would reinvestigate this case.
“We will reopen the investigation after receiving a copy of the court ruling,” Ade said at the Jakarta Police headquarters.
He said that the police decided to terminate the case in February because they could not find criminal elements.
The case began when Ade, a communication science lecturer, wrote a statement that read “Allah is not Arabic” on his Facebook account in May 2015.
Johan has demanded that Ade apologize publicly but the latter refused.
Ade went to the Jakarta Police in June last year to clarify himself over the case.
