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Experts to testify against Ahok during Monday's hearing

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Mon, February 13, 2017 Published on Feb. 13, 2017 Published on 2017-02-13T10:19:06+07:00

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Experts to testify against Ahok during Monday's hearing Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama enters the courtroom of the North Jakarta District Court on Feb. 13. (sindonews.com/POOL/Isra Triansyah/via JP)

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rosecutors will present several experts to testify against Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama in the tenth hearing of the governor’s blasphemy trial on Monday.

"They will summon four experts in the hearing," Ahok's lawyer Fifi Lety Indra told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

The experts include Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) religious scholar Muhammad Amin Suma, criminal law experts Mudzakkir and Abdul Chair Ramadhan and Mahyuni, an expert in Bahasa Indonesia, Fifi said. 

Earlier on Feb. 7, presiding judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto adjourned the hearing until Monday. 

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