Ammar Zoni and Co. Case to Enter Indictment Reading Stage on 13 March 2026
JAKARTA, Kompas.com – The trial in the case of alleged narcotics circulation inside Salemba Prison, which involves actor Ammar Zoni, will move into the stage of reading the indictment.
‘The next session will be on 13 March 2026 at 10:00 WIB with the agenda of reading the indictment by the public prosecutor (JPU),’ Ammar Zoni’s legal representative, Jon Matias, said when contacted by Kompas.com on Wednesday, 4 April 2026.
The reading of the indictment will not only cover Ammar Zoni but also five other defendants in the same case file, namely I Asep bin Sarikin, defendant II Ardian Prasetyo bin Arie Ardih, defendant III Andi Muallim alias Koh Andi, defendant IV Ade Candra Maulana, and defendant V Muhammad Rivaldi.
Earlier, the last hearing was held on Thursday (26 February 2026) with the examination of defense witnesses. However, the witness could not attend, so the panel of judges scheduled the next session to proceed directly to the indictment-reading stage.
For information, the first hearing of this case was held on 23 October 2025 with the agenda of reading out the charges by the public prosecutor.
In the charges, the prosecutor revealed the alleged roles of Ammar Zoni alongside the five other defendants in the distribution of narcotics inside Salemba Prison. They are accused of working together to distribute methamphetamine, cannabis, and ecstasy to fellow inmates.
‘To commit the crime of attempt or conspiracy without right or unlawfully offering for sale, selling, buying, receiving, acting as an intermediary in the sale, exchanging, or handing over narcotics of the first category,’ the prosecutor said as he read the charges.
The prosecutor also revealed that Ammar received 100 grams of meth from a person named Andre (DPO) in December 2024. Of that amount, 50 grams were said to have been handed to defendant Muhammad Rivaldi to be circulated inside the detention facility.
‘Without right or unlawfully possessing, storing, controlling, or providing narcotics of the first category not being plant-based with a weight exceeding 5 grams,’ the prosecutor added.
In this case, Ammar Zoni is described as a receiver or ‘warehouse’ for narcotics inside the prison. The substances were stored in the upper part of his cell before being passed on to the other four defendants—Muhammad Rivaldi, Andi Muallim, Asep, and Ardian Prasetyo—for distribution.
This case is an expansion of a case that came to light in January 2025. The narcotics trading activity is believed to have been ongoing since 31 December 2024.
Ammar Zoni himself has four prior narcotics-related cases, in 2017, March 2023, December 2023, and 2025.