Former Jampidsus Febrie Considers Filing Pretrial Motion
Former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah is considering filing a pretrial motion regarding his designation as a corruption suspect by the Indonesian National Police (Polri) investigation team. The move comes as the process of upgrading Febrie’s legal status is deemed to be riddled with irregularities. Febrie stated he would test the validity of his legal status before a judge. “I am still considering filing a pretrial motion,” Febrie said when contacted from Jakarta on Sunday (19/7/2027).
Febrie’s lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, stated last weekend that there was a fatal flaw in the procedural law applied by police investigators in naming his client a suspect. “It is already clear, there is no need to ask,” Hotman said on Friday (17/7/2026). According to Hotman, the most obvious fatalism by Polri investigators was that Febrie was never once summoned for questioning or examined as a witness during the inquiry or investigation process. “It is clear that for someone to be named a suspect, they must at least be summoned first as a witness,” Hotman said.
Instead, Hotman argued, Polri chose a path that legally humiliated Febrie during the investigation process. “From the start I have said, it was immediately made viral. But he was never asked, never summoned,” Hotman stated. He argued that the law enforcement actions taken by police investigators against Febrie were more appropriately termed criminalisation. Hotman said his client never received a summons for a request for information, nor was he ever asked by investigators to attend an examination as a witness, yet he was suddenly announced as a suspect. “So all the actions taken against Febrie have clearly torn up the contents of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP). It violates all procedural laws, violates all legal principles. Even in the Dutch colonial era, there was nothing like this,” Hotman said.
Febrie was announced as a corruption suspect by a joint investigation team from the Polda Metro Jaya Special Criminal Investigation Directorate and the Polri Corruption Crime Task Force (Kortas Tipidkor) on Saturday (11/7/2027). Polri also announced the suspect status of a private individual named Don Ritto (DR) as of Friday (10/7/2026). Prior to announcing Febrie as a suspect, the police team conducted searches at 12 locations on Wednesday (8/7/2026). Some of the search locations included the de’Clan Signature Restaurant and Koin Money Changer in Cipete, South Jakarta. During searches at these two locations, police found and seized documents and evidence in the form of cash in various local and foreign denominations totalling Rp 67.2 billion.
Searches were also conducted at Febrie’s private residence in Parahyangan Golf-2 Sentul City, Bogor, West Java. At that location, police investigators seized cash in various foreign currencies totalling Rp 467 billion and gold bars weighing a total of 74 kilograms. Police investigators stated Febrie was involved in corruption in the handling of three corruption cases related to the PLTU Batubara, Asabri, and Krakatau Steel. Police charged Febrie under Article 12 letter e, and Article 12 letter E of the Corruption Eradication Law, and Article 3, Article 4 of the Money Laundering Law, and/or Article 607 paragraph 1 letters a and b. Meanwhile, Don Ritto was charged under Article 4 and/or Article 5 in conjunction with Article 10 of Law 8/2010 on Money Laundering, or Article 607 paragraph 1 letters b and c of the Criminal Code.
After being announced as a suspect, Polri handed over the continuation of the case investigation to the Jampidsus at the Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung). The Kejagung subsequently issued three new investigation orders (sprindik) on Monday (13/7/2026) to continue the case from Polri. This was because Polri had only referred to one sprindik in investigating the three main cases targeting Febrie. It was later revealed that Febrie’s suspect status only applied to the main case related to ASABRI, while in the other two main cases, Febrie was only a witness. On Friday (17/7/2026), Polri handed over all evidence and the two suspects to the Kejagung investigation. However, in handing over the evidence and suspects, Polri only delivered Don Ritto, who had been in detention at Polda Metro Jaya since Friday (10/6/2026). As for Febrie, after resigning from Jampidsus on Friday (10/6/2026) and being announced as a suspect on Saturday (11/6/2026), he was not detained. On Friday (17/7/2026), Febrie underwent his first examination as a suspect at the Round Building, Kejagung. Nine special investigating prosecutors from the Kejagung examined Febrie as a suspect.