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View all search resultsProsecutors from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) have lodged motions with the Jakarta High Court in opposition to appeals by murder convict and former police general Ferdy Sambo and three of his accomplices against a lower court’s rulings in their cases.
The South Jakarta District Court has sentenced two accomplices of disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo to 15 and 13 years in prison, respectively, for abetting in the murder of Ferdy’s aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.
The South Jakarta District Court sentenced Kuat Ma’ruf, a private chauffeur of disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo, to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the premeditated murder of Ferdy’s aide-de-camp Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.
Prosecutors have demanded that the wife and former bodyguard of ex-National Police internal affairs chief Ferdy Sambo be sentenced to eight and 12 years in prison, respectively, for their alleged roles in the murder of police officer Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in July 2022.
Public faith in the National Police is believed to have hit a historic low, as the cover-up scandal in the murder of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat allegedly at the hands of Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo widens into allegations of elite factionalism within the force and institutional complicity in the shadowy underworld of illegal gambling.
The National Police have finally announced that their former internal affairs chief, Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo, allegedly masterminded the murder of his aide de camp, Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, but questions remain over his reported motive.
The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has charged a low-ranking police officer with premeditated murder in the mysterious death of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat at the home of then-internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo last month.
The investigation into the mysterious death of Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat has taken a new course with the National Police now focusing on the alleged cover-up carried out by dozens of officers initially assigned to resolve the high-profile murder case.
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) remains divided on whether the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib should be considered a gross human rights violation as the prosecution deadline draws closer.
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