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Court rejects claims for compensation over miscarriage of justice
Four friends cleared of murder charges have failed to win compensation after spending years in prison.
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T
he light of hope in the face of Netty Herawati Hutabarat immediately faded when the South Jakarta District Court judge ruled on Tuesday that a lawsuit filed by her youngest son, Arga Putra Samosir, has passed the statute of limitations.
Arga and his friends Fikri Pribadi, Fatahillah and Bagus Firdaus had sued the Jakarta Police and the Attorney General’s Office on July 17 and demanded the two institutions pay them Rp 750 million in damages over a miscarriage of justice.
Moreover, they demanded a public apology from the two institutions through television, newspapers and online media for their false accusations.
The case began in July 2013, when the four plaintiffs, along with Andro Suprianto and Nurdin Prianto, found an 18-year-old busker, Dicky Maulana, dying under a bridge in Cipulir, South Jakarta. Dicky eventually died from excessive blood loss due to stab wounds.
The six of them said they were just trying to help Dicky, who had already been bleeding when they found him. However, police did not believe them.
According to them, the police even resorted to intimidation and violence to extract confessions in the course of interrogations that lasted a week.
In October 2013, the district court found them guilty of murder and sentenced Andro and Nurdin – the only two among the six that were not minors at the time – to seven years in prison each. Fikri got four years, while Fatahillah, Agra and Bagus were sentenced to three years of imprisonment each.
