Sahroni: No Need to Form TGPF in Andrie Yunus Case
Deputy Chairman of Commission III of the DPR, Ahmad Sahroni, believes that the formation of a Joint Fact-Finding Team (TGPF) is unnecessary in the revelation of the human rights activist Andrie Yunus’s case. This is because, he stated, the investigation into the acid splashing incident has already been handed over by the police to the military institution.
“If it’s TGPF, it’s actually not needed anymore because it has been handed over to the TNI’s Pushpom,” he said when met in the DPR complex, Jakarta, on Wednesday, 1 April 2026.
He stated that the formation of a fact-finding team is only needed if the investigation process does not go through the TNI. “If now it has been handed over, the rest is with the TNI,” said this NasDem Party politician.
Previously, in a meeting with Commission III of the DPR, the Team for Democracy Advocacy (TAUD) urged President Prabowo Subianto to form a joint fact-finding team to thoroughly uncover the Andrie Yunus case.
Andrie’s legal team said that historically, TPF has played a role in uncovering various past human rights violation cases, such as the murder of Munir Said, the Kanjuruhan incident, and the Cicak-Buaya conflict at the KPK.
TAUD representative, Gema Gita Persada, said that the formation of this independent fact-finding team aims to uncover the intellectual authors in the Andrie Yunus case. He also believes that the TPF’s role is more comprehensive in investigating allegations of a command chain.
TAUD believes that the acid splashing against Andrie Yunus was driven by parties with power in certain institutions. Therefore, the possibility of a command chain needs to be traced by an independent TPF involving civil society and figures of integrity.
According to him, the formation of an independent TPF would not only be able to thoroughly uncover the acid splashing case against Andrie Yunus. Gema said that the prosecution of human rights violence cases through official TPF intervention could prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.
“So the push to form an independent fact-finding team is not merely to uncover the case, but further to safeguard the continuity of democracy in the future. We hope the case against Andrie becomes the last one,” he said at the YLBHI office, Jakarta, on Monday, 30 March 2026.
Another TAUD member, Fadhil Alfathan, assessed that there is no reason for the state not to accommodate public aspirations to form an independent TPF in the investigation of the Andrie Yunus case. According to him, President Prabowo Subianto must immediately officially form an independent TPF with clear authority and duties.
“And filled with a composition of integrity figures from various disciplines,” he said at the YLBHI office, Jakarta, on Monday, 30 March 2026.
Moreover, he said that two weeks after Andrie Yunus was splashed with acid, there has been no significant development in the investigation from law enforcement authorities. The police only announced two perpetrators who were the field executors on 18 March.
Meanwhile, at the same time, the TNI stated that it has detained four suspected perpetrators involved in the acid splashing against Andrie Yunus. All four are active soldiers serving in the Detachment of the TNI Strategic Intelligence Agency Headquarters.
According to Fadhil, the stagnation of the investigation process by law enforcement officials is reasonably suspected due to non-juridical factors. He is concerned that political obstacles will hinder the completion of the investigation up to the command chain.
“The President can prevent further political excesses by forming an independent fact-finding team in accordance with the public’s desire for the revelation of the acid splashing case to be oriented towards justice,” said this Director of LBH Jakarta.