TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Romahurmuziy receives lighter sentence than prosecutors’ demands
Change Size
The Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced former United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad "Romy" Romahurmuziy to two years imprisonment for accepting bribes. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
T
he Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced former United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad "Romy" Romahurmuziy to two years in prison for accepting bribes and allowed him to keep his political rights, a punishment lighter than demanded by prosecutors.
"[The court] declares that Mohammad Romahurmuziy has been officially and convincingly proven to be guilty of the crime of corruption," head judge Fazal Hendri said at the Jakarta Corruption Court in Central Jakarta on Monday.
The sentence was half of the four years demanded by prosecutors last week. The judges also decided not to strip Romy of his political rights, in contrast to the prosecutors’ demands.
Fazal said the judges' decided to defer to a 2019 Constitutional Court ruling that stated that former convicts could run for elected office five years after they had served their sentence.
"The panel of judges agree with the Constitutional Court's ruling so we will not impose the additional punishment of revoking [Romy's] political rights," he said.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators arrested Romy in March 2019 for allegedly accepting Rp 416.4 million (US$30,500) in bribes to influence then Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim, a PPP member, to promote two ministry officials.
The two officials, Haris Hasanuddin and Muafaq Wirahadi, were both previously found guilty of bribery and sentenced to two years and one-and-a-half years in prison, respectively.
