Court Rejects Roy Suryo's Pretrial Motion, Upholds Suspect Status in Jokowi Diploma Defamation Case

The South Jakarta District Court has rejected a pretrial motion filed by Roy Suryo, thereby declaring his suspect status in the alleged defamation case regarding President Joko Widodo’s diplomas as legally valid. The ruling was delivered by sole judge I Ketut Darpawan during a session held in Ragunan on Monday, 20 July 2026. In his verdict, the judge stated that all of the applicant’s requests could not be granted. ‘The court rules to reject the applicant’s pretrial motion in its entirety,’ the judge declared. The decision concludes Suryo’s attempt to challenge the legitimacy of his naming as a suspect. The judge found no grounds to grant the request, allowing the legal process against Suryo to proceed to the main trial. In his considerations, the judge assessed that the pretrial motion was an attempt to delay the main proceedings and constituted a misuse of the pretrial mechanism. Previously, Roy Suryo had partially succeeded in a separate pretrial motion concerning the processes of search, arrest, and detention, though that earlier ruling did not affect the ongoing criminal investigation. Roy Suryo and Tifauzia Tyassuma, known as dr Tifa, have been named as suspects in the case.