Officials from both the executive and legislative branches have expressed support for Baiq Nuril.
aiq Nuril Maknun, a West Nusa Tenggara woman who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for defaming her alleged sexual abuser, has made some progress in her efforts to obtain amnesty from President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.
Officials from both the executive and legislative branches have expressed support for Nuril and the Law and Human Rights Ministry is set to get the ball rolling on her plea for amnesty, which if granted would remove from her all legal consequences of the crime for which she was convicted without her having to admit guilt or express remorse.
Nuril arrived in Jakarta on Monday to speak directly to Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly about her case.
"I would like to seek justice and I am hoping that President [Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo] would grant me amnesty," Nuril said while holding back her tears at the ministry's office.
Speaking together with Nuril, Yasonna said that the ministry was currently formulating judicial arguments together with law experts to support her amnesty plea.
"We are worried that if we did not [formulate arguments for amnesty], thousands of Indonesian women who experienced sexual violence would be afraid to report [their experiences]," he said.
The arguments, he said, would be handed to the State Secretariat by Tuesday to provide the President with a legal basis to grant amnesty.
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