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)