Is a General Court Possible for 4 TNI Suspects in the Acid Attack?

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The TNI Military Police Centre (Puspom) has designated four members of the TNI Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) as suspects in the acid attack incident against Human Rights Defender (HAM) and Deputy Coordinator of the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), Andrie Yunus.

Given their status as TNI members, the legal process is likely to conclude in a military court.

The Coalition for Civil Society for Security Sector Reform is calling for the legal process to be conducted in a general court.

Andrie’s colleagues are requesting that the trial process be carried out transparently.

For activists, a military court is fraught with impunity and is feared to end up protecting the alleged perpetrators rather than delivering justice for the victim.

“Bringing this case to a military court is also feared to eliminate the severity and systematic nature of this case. It is not impossible that this case could implicate higher chain of command actors as intellectual perpetrators,” as quoted from the official statement received by Kompas.com on Wednesday (18/3/2026).

The Coalition urges the government to investigate this case up to the intellectual actors who ordered the assault on Andrie.

“To that end, the Coalition for Civil Society urges that this case be thoroughly investigated up to the intellectual actors and not stop at the field perpetrators through a transparent and accountable judicial process in the general court system,” the Coalition continued.