From the Polri Law to the Bandung confinement case: A roundup of Monday's legal events
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Several legal events occurred on Monday (22/6), ranging from President Prabowo Subianto ratifying the Polri Law to the House of Representatives’ response to the confinement of a woman in Bandung for three years. Here is a summary of the legal news compiled by ANTARA.
- Prabowo ratifies revised Polri Law, regulating civilian posts and retirement age
President Prabowo Subianto has ratified Law Number 5 of 2026 concerning the Third Amendment to Law Number 2 of 2002 on the Indonesian National Police, which contains several crucial provisions. These provisions range from the placement of active Polri members in positions outside the institution, changes to the retirement age, to opportunities for persons with disabilities to become police officers.
- Ministry of Forestry foils illegal land clearing in UGM educational forest in Ngawi
The Ministry of Forestry, through the Law Enforcement Centre for the Java, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara Region of the Directorate General of Forestry Law Enforcement, successfully thwarted illegal land clearing in the UGM educational forest area in Ngawi Regency, East Java. The Director General of Forestry Law Enforcement, Dwi Januanto Nugroho, stated in a written release on Monday that the operation was carried out through a joint forestry crime operation in the Special Purpose Forest Area (KHDTK) Diklathut of Gadjah Mada University (UGM), involving the East Java Police Supervisory Corps, the East Java Police Mobile Brigade, and the East Java High Prosecutor’s Office.
- BJU Group executive sentenced to 8 years in prison in LPEI corruption case
Hendarto, a director and beneficial owner of several companies within the Bara Jaya Utama (BJU) Group, was sentenced to 8 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption in the financing facility provision case by the Indonesian Export Financing Institution (LPEI). “We declare the defendant legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a joint and continuing criminal act of corruption as charged in the first indictment,” said Presiding Judge Brelly Yuniar Dien while reading the verdict at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Monday.
- Immigration appoints 13 senior officials, including for West Java and West Jakarta
The Director General of Immigration, Hendarsam Marantoko, inaugurated 13 senior immigration officials in various working areas, including the Head of the Regional Office of the Directorate General of Immigration for West Java and the Head of the Class I Immigration Office for Special West Jakarta. Hendarsam said some of the appointed officials filled vacant Echelon II positions related to cases at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
- Lawmaker: Confinement of woman in Bandung for three years is a heinous act
Member of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Rano Alfath, stated that the confinement and torture of a woman with the initials YTR for three years in Bandung Regency, West Java, was a heinous act. Speaking at the Parliament Complex in Jakarta on Monday, Rano urged the West Java Regional Police to immediately arrest the suspected perpetrator, a man with the initials T.