Febrie Adriansyah's Pretrial Motion Rejected, National Police Say Investigators Acted Lawfully

The National Police have responded to the South Jakarta District Court’s ruling rejecting the entire pretrial motion of former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah. Head of the Legal Division’s Legal Services Bureau at National Police Headquarters, Brigadier General Veris Septriansyah, expressed hope that the ruling would allow the case handling by the Attorney General’s Office’s Team 9 investigators to proceed smoothly. “We hope that the next steps, which we have handed over to our colleagues at the Attorney General’s Office, can proceed properly in accordance with applicable regulations,” Veris said after the hearing on Thursday (27/8/2026).

Veris stated that the judge’s ruling affirmed that all actions previously taken by police investigators had met legal requirements. These actions included searches, seizures, the naming of a suspect, travel bans, and the handover of the case to the Attorney General’s Office. “They were in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code as well as other provisions from the Constitutional Court and jurisprudence from other rulings,” he said.

Previously, sole pretrial judge Richard Edwin Basoeki of the South Jakarta District Court rejected all of Febrie’s requests. The judge ruled that the series of legal actions against the former Jampidsus had been carried out according to procedure. “Adjudicating, in the main case, rejecting the Petitioner’s pretrial motion in its entirety,” Richard said while reading the verdict at the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday (27/8/2026) evening.

In his considerations, the judge stated that there had been a series of investigations and case exposés before investigators conducted the search of Febrie. The judge also assessed that the search was conducted based on applicable legal procedures. Based on expert testimony considered during the trial, the Criminal Procedure Code does not set a minimum time limit between the issuance of an investigation order and the execution of a search. According to the judge, the measure is whether the search was conducted as part of an investigation with factual and legal basis. “The judge found no circumstances indicating that the case in question suddenly emerged on 6 July 2026 without a prior process. On the contrary, there was a series of investigations and case exposés long before the search was carried out,” Richard said.

With this ruling, the National Police stated that the legal process previously carried out by its investigators had been deemed to meet formal aspects. The subsequent handling of the case has been handed over to the Attorney General’s Office to be processed in accordance with applicable regulations.

Febrie’s legal counsel, Febri Diansyah, said his team respected the ruling that had been read out by the judge. Nevertheless, the legal team still has several notes regarding some of the considerations. Before conducting the search, investigators had also obtained testimony from Tan Kian regarding the alleged handover of money to Febrie. The South Jakarta District Court judge rejected the pretrial motion of former Jampidsus Febrie Adriansyah regarding the naming of a suspect for money laundering and detention by the Attorney General’s Office. Febri Diansyah said that a pretrial motion is a suspect’s right to test the validity of legal actions by law enforcement, not to determine guilt or innocence. The South Jakarta District Court judge also revealed an alleged flow of funds of Rp40 billion to former Jampidsus Febrie Adriansyah from Tan Kian in the pretrial ruling.