Supreme Court Upholds Prosecutor's Cassation, Forged Inheritance Document Defendant Sentenced to Probation

Indonesia’s Supreme Court (MA) has upheld a cassation appeal filed by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) from Bali’s High Prosecutor’s Office (Kejati) in a case involving the forgery of an inheritance document, with defendant Anak Agung Ngurah Oka from Jero Kepisah.

Previously, Oka had been acquitted of all charges by Denpasar District Court (PN). However, at the cassation level, his legal status was reversed.

Prosecutor I Gusti Ngurah Arya stated that through Supreme Court Decision Number 1941 K/Pid/2025 dated 4 December 2025, Oka’s legal status changed from acquitted at Denpasar District Court to convicted based on the Supreme Court’s judgment.

“At the first instance, he was indeed acquitted. However, we believed that reasoning was incorrect, so we filed a cassation appeal,” Arya explained when contacted on Tuesday, 3 March 2026.

According to Arya, the Supreme Court agreed with the prosecution’s arguments. “Our cassation appeal was granted. The defendant was found guilty of creating forged documents and sentenced to a suspended prison sentence,” he added.

At the cassation level, the Supreme Court upheld the prosecution’s charges. The Denpasar District Court’s judgment was annulled and Oka was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with a six-month probation period.

This means the prison sentence need not be served unless the defendant commits another crime during the six-month probation period.

The case originated in 2016, when Oka created a genealogy certificate and an inheritance certificate. These documents were subsequently used to apply for a property ownership certificate for a plot of land in Subak Kerdung, Pedungan, Denpasar.

During investigation and trial proceedings, prosecutors discovered discrepancies in the defendant’s ancestral identities across several documents created between 2011 and 2016. The names listed varied, as did the years of death and the names of wives mentioned.

Prosecutors argued these discrepancies were not merely administrative errors but rather deliberate forgery of documents to support inheritance claims.

On 4 September 2025, Denpasar District Court ruled the case with an acquittal (onslag) through Decision Number 1067/Pid.B/2024/PN Dps. The prosecution subsequently filed a cassation appeal.