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