Delpedro asks Yusril and the state to restore his dignity and honour
Jakarta (ANTARA) — Lokataru Foundation Executive Director Delpedro Marhaen has asked Coordinating Minister for Legal, Political and Security Affairs Imipas Yusril Ihza Mahendra and the state to restore and improve its dignity and honour together with three other defendants.
Because, he said, when he was first arrested by the police, the Coordinating Minister Yusril asked him and the three other defendants in the case of alleged incitement during the August 2025 demonstrations which ended in rioting, could act as gentlemen facing the judiciary.
‘Now we have faced the judiciary and we have been declared not guilty and free,’ Delpedro said after the verdict reading at the Central Jakarta District Court, on Friday.
In addition, he asked the state to compensate the losses experienced by him and the other defendants, namely material losses due to being unable to work, attend university, and incur costs for court-related needs etc, due to imprisonment for six months.
‘Imagine how injustice works, what about other political detainees,’ he said.
Therefore, he hopes the case that dragged him as a defendant can become a precedent and a picture that all political detainees, in essence, are only fighting for democracy, freedom of expression, and human rights.
Thus, Delpedro emphasised that other political detainees should also be released soon.
The four defendants have been acquitted after it was decided that they were not proven to have committed crimes in the case.
In court, the public prosecutors were deemed unable to present evidence indicating manipulation, fabrication or construction of facts by the defendants.
Therefore, the Panel of Judges ordered the prosecutors to restore the rights of the defendants in their abilities, status, dignity and honour.
Earlier, the four defendants were charged with a punishment of two years in prison as they were believed beyond reasonable doubt to have committed a crime, namely participating in committing a crime in public with speech or writing inciting others to commit crimes, or inciting people to oppose the authorities with violence.
In that case, Delpedro and colleagues were charged with uploading 80 collaborative contents that were inciting with the aim of provoking hatred against the government from 24-29 August 2025.
It is stated that the defendants uploaded electronic information on social media managed by the four defendants, which invited students to participate in the riots.
The call via social media was produced from 24-29 August 2025, where the narratives uploaded by the defendants caused students, most of whom were underage, to be incited and follow for anarchy in front of the DPR RI, in front of Polda Metro Jaya, and in several other locations.
One of the postings that formed part of the indictment was a poster reading ‘Legal aid for students taking to the streets’ with the caption ‘Are you students who joined the action? Do not fear intimidation or criminalisation; contact us immediately.’