Roy Suryo's Third Pretrial Hearing Postponed for One Week

The pretrial hearing filed by KMRT Roy Suryo, a suspect in the case concerning allegations of fake diplomas belonging to Indonesia’s 7th President Joko Widodo, has been postponed for one week. The adjournment was due to the absence of the co-respondent, the South Jakarta District Attorney’s Office. ‘The hearing is postponed until 29 July to summon the co-respondent, at 09:00 WIB. Please attend on time, as I have other cases to hear. The session is closed,’ stated sole judge I Ketut Darpawan at the South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday (22/7). The judge ordered both Roy Suryo and the Metro Jaya Police, who are the respondents, to attend the next hearing. Roy’s lawyer, Refly Harun, objected to any suggestion that they were delaying the main case by filing a third pretrial motion. He explained that submitting a pretrial motion with a different object of request is a right of every individual, including a suspect. ‘We do not wish to attack anyone, but if we are accused of delaying, the fact is that today’s delay was not caused by us. The one-week postponement occurred because of the absence of the co-respondent, the District Attorney’s Office, who would also be the prosecutor if the main case proceeds,’ Refly Harun said after the hearing. ‘So, once again, this pretrial motion is a right. What is not allowed is repeating the same request, as that would be ne bis in idem. But as long as the items of the request are different, it is a right. That right can be exercised or not,’ he added. Refly stated that the compensation value requested in this pretrial motion is around Rp200 million. He explained that this calculation is based on applicable provisions regarding the losses Roy has suffered throughout the legal process. ‘There is a global calculation, for instance, if there is no injury, after arrest and detention, the cost is calculated rationally. For example, income that should have been earned but was not. Then the cost of deploying people, deploying legal counsel, and so on. All of these have their own calculations,’ he clarified. This third pretrial motion was registered by Roy at the South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, under case number 118/Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL, with the case classification concerning ‘Compensation’. In the second pretrial hearing regarding the suspect designation, Judge I Ketut rejected the request. However, in the first pretrial hearing concerning the search, arrest, and detention, Judge I Ketut ruled in Roy’s favour.