Usman Hamid Criticises Sahroni's Statement on No Need for TGPF in Andrie Case
Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, has highlighted the statement by Deputy Chairman of DPR Commission III Ahmad Sahroni, who claimed there is no need for a joint fact-finding team (TGPF) in the case of Andrie Yunus.
Rather than recognising the DPR’s oversight function, the statement, according to Usman, risks stalling the investigation into the Andrie case. Usman said Sahroni’s statement also risks making the case non-transparent and perpetuating impunity for military violence against civilians.
“I can’t fathom why a commission leader in the DPR would make such a statement instead of supporting the formation of an independent TGPF,” Usman said via WhatsApp message on Thursday, 2 April 2026.
Usman stated that without the formation of an independent TGPF, the legal process would run exclusively, accessible only to the military.
“Perhaps the problematic stance of DPR members like this has also contributed to strengthening the infrastructure of impunity all along,” Usman said.
He emphasised that, as representatives of the people, the DPR must not forget the MPR Decree and the TNI Law, which regulate the legal process for soldiers in criminal acts. The case should not be brought to a military court but to a general court.
According to Usman, handing the investigation of the Andrie case to the TNI would make it difficult to identify the intellectual perpetrators. “This is dangerous for the Andrie case,” said the former Kontras Coordinator.
Based on Kontras data on military court verdicts in assault-murder cases involving TNI personnel from October 2023 to September 2025, there were 244 decisions involving 262 defendants.
Sentences for defendants tend to be light. For example, 10 months’ imprisonment. There were 20 decisions with 26 defendants receiving that sentence. There were also 6 months’ prison sentences in 17 decisions and 17 defendants; and 3 months’ prison in 20 decisions and defendants.
Some examples of general criminal cases involving TNI personnel handled in military courts include the Supreme Court cassation against the verdict of two TNI AL personnel in the shooting of a car rental boss. The Supreme Court changed the life imprisonment sentence to 15 years in prison.
That cassation also lightened the sentence for another defendant soldier, Sergeant One Rafsin Hermawan, who received a sentence reduction from 4 years’ imprisonment to 2 years.
Light sentences also occurred for Sergeant One Riza Pahlivi. Riza was the defendant in the case of assaulting a student to death. However, the Military Court I-02 Medan sentenced Riza to 10 months’ imprisonment.
Yesterday, Ahmad Sahroni stated that there is no need to form a TGPF in the Andrie Yunus case because the legal process has now been handed over from the police to the Military Police Centre.
“If it’s already been handed over now, the rest is with the TNI. TGPF is no longer needed,” said the NasDem Party politician at the DPR, MPR, and DPD Complex on Wednesday, 1 April 2026.
Previously, Andrie Yunus was doused with acid on 12 March. The liquid thrown by personnel from the TNI Strategic Intelligence Agency damaged and injured the body of this Deputy Coordinator of Kontras.