Nur Mahmudi visits chief justice

Nur Mahmudi visits chief justice

JAKARTA: Former forestry minister Nur Mahmudi Ismail accompanied by his lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution met Supreme Court president Bagir Manan here on Tuesday to persuade the latter to help him in his attempts to retain his win in the recent Depok municipal election.

"We came here to plead for the case of Pak Nur Mahmudi to be tried soon (by the Supreme Court)," Buyung said after the two- hour meeting.

However, Bagir recently said the lower court's verdict that favored Nur Mahmudi's rival, Badrul Kamal of the Golkar Party, was final and legally binding.

The West Java High Court annulled in July the victory of Nur Mahmudi, a former Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) leader, and instead ruled that Badrul was the winner of the direct election.

Buyung said he and his client presented Bagir with a report on the process of the lower court's controversial decision against Nur Mahmudi during the meeting.

"We have just handed over a letter called an ad informandum to give him (Bagir) information. It's not a legal effort, because the Depok elections commission has already filed a request for the Supreme Court to review the verdict," Buyung said. --Antara