Mataram District Court accepts cassation appeal in fatal student assault case

The Mataram District Court in West Nusa Tenggara has accepted cassation appeals in the criminal case concerning the assault of student Ni Made Vaniradya Puspa Nitra, who died at Nipah Beach in North Lombok Regency.

According to data accessed through the Mataram District Court’s Case Tracking Information System (SIPP), the appeals to the Supreme Court were filed by both the public prosecutor and the defendant, Radiet Adiansyah.

“Yes, that is correct. The public prosecutor has filed a cassation appeal against the previous appellate ruling,” said Harun Al Rasyid, spokesperson for the West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor’s Office, in Mataram on Tuesday.

The cassation filing was also pursued by the defendant. Through his legal counsel, Radiet submitted a cassation request to the Mataram District Court.

“Yes, we have filed a cassation appeal,” said Kusnaini.

He acknowledged that this further legal action remains connected to the West Nusa Tenggara High Court’s appellate ruling, which upheld the first-instance court decision.

“The full details will be set out in the cassation memorandum,” he said.

The panel of judges at the first-instance court, in its ruling dated 10 June 2026, found that the defendant Radiet’s actions violated the prosecutor’s second alternative charge, namely Article 466(3) of Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code.

The panel therefore declared the defendant proven to have committed assault resulting in the victim’s death, and imposed a prison sentence of six years.

The ruling was reached by a majority vote of the panel. One member, the presiding judge, issued a dissenting opinion.

Mukhlassuddin, as presiding judge, stated that the defendant Radiet was not proven on all charges brought by the prosecutor, believing there was a role played by a third party in the criminal act that led to the victim’s death.

However, the majority decision differed from the prosecutor’s demand, which had asked the court to find the defendant guilty of the first charge under Article 458(1) of Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code.

That charge related to the prosecutor’s assertion that the defendant was proven to have committed murder, leading the prosecutor to request a 13-year prison sentence.

In the sentencing demand, the prosecutor reinforced this argument based on facts revealed during the trial through forensic expert testimony, including the finding of two DNA profiles at the scene belonging to the victim and the defendant.

Regarding the alleged involvement of another person as claimed by the defendant during the trial and depicted in a facial sketch, the prosecutor stated that this could not be relied upon as there was no supporting evidence.