DPR Member Hopes Sea Dragon Crew Case Does Not Become a 'Mobile ATM' for Law Enforcement

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Member of Commission III of the Indonesian Parliament, Bob Hasan, has reminded that the legal process in the drug smuggling case involving the Sea Dragon crew should not be misused as a tool for specific interests.

The Gerindra Party politician affirmed that the law should not be used as a means of structural violence or as a ‘mobile ATM’ by law enforcement officials.

‘The law should not be used as a tool for structural violence. The law should not be used as a tool for the domination of power. The law should not be used as a financial ATM, that’s the point,’ said Bob during a public hearing (RDPU) of Commission III of the Indonesian Parliament regarding the Sea Dragon crew case, Thursday (February 27, 2026).

Therefore, the summoning of investigators and public prosecutors in a parliamentary forum should not be considered an intervention in the judicial power.

‘In order not to interfere with the judiciary in this case, I think summoning investigators and also public prosecutors does not interfere with the dominance of the judiciary,’ he said.

Bob, who also serves as the Chairman of the Legislative Body of the Parliament, also mentioned the authority of the Legislative Body to monitor the implementation of laws, including the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code, as stipulated in Article 66, letter h of the Internal Rules of the Legislative Body.

‘If we talk objectively, perhaps in this case of mens rea, it has not yet been fully applied that mens rea is not bad intention, but rather a state of mind. Whether that state of mind is in line with the actual act or actus reus,’ said Bob.

He believes that in many law enforcement cases, the chain of events is often cut short, leading to incomplete conclusions.

‘We support the summoning of law enforcement officials to appear before us and we are ready to question everything that has been conveyed by Fandi Ramadhan and his colleagues,’ said Bob.

Previously, Commission III of the Indonesian Parliament held a RDPU with the families of the defendants in the drug smuggling case involving 1,995,130 grams or almost 2 tons of drugs transported by the Sea Dragon ship.

The legal counsel for Fandi, Hotman Paris Hutapea, said that his client had only worked as a crew member for three days when the ship was apprehended by authorities in Tanjung Balai Karimun, Riau Islands, in May 2025.