Sporting outcome: Roy Suryo (right), who served as youth and sports minister in 2013-2014, gives a thumbs-up on July 7, 2026, after a pretrial ruling in the defamation case pertaining to ex-president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s academic credentials at the South Jakarta District Court, which declared the Jakarta Police's detention of Roy as invalid.`

Court orders release of Jokowi degree challenger in pretrial ruling

The South Jakarta District Court has ordered the immediate release of Roy Suryo after the presiding judge found fault with his detention on technical grounds, as it was executed under a warrant for a raid and not an arrest.

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