Investigator vows to submit Agus dossiers soon
Investigator vows to submit Agus dossiers soon
JAKARTA (JP): The dossiers of Army Second Lt. Agus Isrok, an
alleged accomplice in last August's drug abuse case, will be
submitted before the end of next week, an official said on
Wednesday.
"We'll submit the dossiers of Second Lt. Agus Isrok to the
Jakarta Military Prosecutor's Office by next week at the latest,"
Col. Hendardji, the director of investigation department at the
National Military Police headquarters, told The Jakarta Post and
Media Indonesia.
"Currently, we're still verifying the truth of testimonies by
witnesses and Agus," he said.
He admitted that the dossiers, which will be submitted to the
military prosecutor's office, were a revision of the first
dossiers which was submitted to the office last month.
"Indeed, there is additional information that we are trying to
gather before completing the dossiers," he said, but did not
elaborate on the incomplete parts of the dossiers.
Col. A.M. Ambong, head of the Jakarta military prosecutor's
office, said here on Tuesday that the military police
headquarters had failed to elaborate Agus' activities right
before he was arrested by the city police in Hotel Travel in West
Jakarta.
Hendardji said the witnesses were officers from the West
Jakarta Police precinct, who conducted the investigation of
Agus's civilian accomplice, Donny Hendrian. Donny is being tried
at the West Jakarta District Court.
Agus, a son of former Army Chief Gen. Subagyo Hadisiswoyo, is
expected to appear at the district court as a witness, but he is
not scheduled to appear at the courtroom until the court's
seventh hearing.
Prosecutor Amarullah encountered an obstacle presenting Agus
at the hearing as he was summoned under his alias Deky Setiawan
and the letter was sent to Deky's address in Bandung, West Java,
which proved to be fictitious.
Judge Hadi Lelana has ordered the prosecutor to ask the
military police headquarters to allow Agus to appear in court.
Hendardji, however, asserted that the prosecutor had never
contacted the military police headquarters to ask for permission
to present Agus at the hearing.
"We've never received any of such request from the
prosecutor," he said.
Name
The city police and the prosecutor have insisted on using the
name of Deky Setiawan, instead of Agus Isrok, in the prosecution.
The name Deky was used in the original police report and in the
prosecutor's indictment.
Hendardji, however, confirmed that he would use the name of
Second Lt. Agus Isrok, a member of the Army's Special Force
(Kopassus), in the military police's dossiers.
Hendardji, also former chief of the city military police, said
his office had examined evidence provided by the city police.
"The headquarters have examined matches, that contained a few
grams of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). The drug was
seized by the police from Agus during the arrest," he said.
The police report said Agus was arrested along with Donny on
Aug. 8 last year in Hotel Travel in West Jakarta.
The police seized items in the room including 1.6 kilograms of
shabu-shabu, 6,218 ecstasy pills, 27.9 grams of heroin and 25
sachets of Valium pills.
Hendardji said the matches were seized from Agus' jacket.
"We didn't examine other evidence, since it had nothing to do
with Agus," he said.
Hendardji said upon receiving the dossiers from the military
police headquarters, the military prosecutor's office would issue
a recommendation to Agus's superior.
"It will be his direct commander, the Kopassus' Group IV
Commander for Intelligence operations or the Kopassus Commandant-
general," he said.
The superior will then make a decision whether the case should
be prosecuted in a military court.
"The superior will determine if the case should be prosecuted
in a military court," he said. (asa)