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Court acquits ex-Langkat regent in caging case
A spokesman of the Langkat Prosecutor’s Office in North Sumatra says the office plans to appeal the acquittal handed down on Monday by the Stabat District Court to Terbit Rencana Perangin-Angin, over his role in the case of illegal incarceration at his residence that led to the deaths of four people.
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A police officer secures on Jan. 26, 2022 one of two iron-barred cells discovered during a police raid on Jan. 18 at the house of graft suspect and former Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Perangin-angin in Central Raja village, Langkat, North Sumatra. (Antara/Oman)
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he Stabat District Court in Langkat, North Sumatra, acquitted on Monday former Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Perangin-angin of all charges related to the fatal and illicit incarceration of people at his residence, for which prosecutors had demanded a 14-year prison sentence.
Presiding judge Andriansyah also rejected the prosecutors’ demand of Rp 2.3 billion (US$147,465) restitution for the victims and their families.
Sabri Fitriyansyah Marbun of the Langkat Prosecutor’s Office told The Jakarta Post on Monday that prosecutors would appeal the verdict.
In 2022, the Stabat District Court handed down a guilty verdict for eight other defendants, including Terbit’s son Dewa, for their role as “caretakers” and their involvement in caging people in the specially built of the iron-barred cells that resulted in the deaths of four individuals.
Dewa and three other defendants were also charged with group violence resulting in death and premeditated murder, which respectively carry maximum penalties of 12 years and 15 years in prison under the Criminal Code.
The court found the four guilty of group violence resulting in death and sentenced them to 19 months in jail.
The remaining four defendants were found guilty of illegal incarceration leading to death, which carries a maximum penalty of five years under the Human Trafficking Law, of whom one was sentenced to two years in jail and the other three to three years in jail.
