Pre-trial Rejected, Febrie Adriansyah's Legal Team Prepares Next Steps
The legal counsel of former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes Febrie Adriansyah, Febri Diansyah, said the legal team will soon meet with their client to discuss and examine the next steps following the pre-trial hearing. “After this pre-trial, there are of course legal processes still ongoing. We will discuss those further,” Febri said in a statement in Jakarta on Friday (28/8).
Previously, Febrie Adriansyah filed two pre-trial motions at the South Jakarta District Court. The first motion, numbered 134/Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL, concerned the legality of forced seizure measures. The respondents were the Metro Jaya Regional Police, the Corruption Eradication Task Force of the Indonesian National Police, and the Attorney General’s Office.
Regarding the first motion, the sole pre-trial judge at the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday (27/8) read out the ruling and rejected Febrie Adriansyah’s petition. The second motion, numbered 135/Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL, concerns the legality of the implementation of forced measures in the suspect designation. The respondent is the Attorney General cq the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General’s Office.
The pre-trial ruling hearing is scheduled to be held on Friday afternoon. Febri said his team respects the pre-trial judge’s ruling, although they have differing views in assessing the case against their client.
He said the legal team will study in detail the considerations and rulings that the judge delivered openly. The legal team, Febri said, has a number of notes regarding the considerations presented by the judge. “Our hope from the beginning when this pre-trial motion was filed was to be able to correct, straighten out, or conduct a thorough evaluation if there are problems in the handling of criminal cases,” he said.
He added that evaluation is important so that the same problems do not recur for other parties, related to the failure to fulfil the precautionary principle in case handling or hasty handling and the like.
“So, this is a continuous effort that we need to make to jointly safeguard this legal process, so that the criminal legal process truly respects the principles of due process of law and so that there are no practices of abuse against people or citizens handled by law enforcement institutions,” Febri said.
He also quoted the principle of Febrie Adriansyah, who has 30 years of experience as a law enforcer, namely placing the law as a way to seek the truth.
“He continues to respect the legal process and places the law as a way or path to find the truth and together to achieve justice for the parties involved throughout the process,” he said.