Adiguna trial set to resume Thursday

Adiguna trial set to resume Thursday

JAKARTA: Prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday that Thursday's
hearing on whether to proceed with the trial of murder suspect
Adiguna Sutowo would go ahead as scheduled, even though the
defendant was still being treated in hospital for asthma.

"We haven't received any news from the doctors, but he will
probably attend the hearing. However, the trial will continue
with or without him," prosecutor Danu Sebayang told The Jakarta
Post.

Adiguna, younger brother of property tycoon Ponco Sutowo, was
taken to the Pertamina hospital, South Jakarta, late on Monday
after falling unconscious in his cell at Salemba prison, Central
Jakarta.

He has been charged under Article 338 of the Criminal Code for
shooting Yohannes Berchmans Haerudy Natong to death. The article
carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

The prosecutors have also charged him under the 1951 Emergency
Law on illegal possession of firearms, which carries a maximum
sentence of life imprisonment. -- JP