Videographer Amsal complains to DPR Commission III about past intimidation

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Videographer for a village project in Karo Regency, North Sumatra, who is the defendant in a corruption case involving budget inflation, Amsal Christy Sitepu, attended a virtual meeting with DPR RI Commission III and revealed that he had faced intimidation during the legal process. He claimed to have received a box of brownies from a prosecutor who asked him to follow the legal flow and not make a fuss on social media. According to him, the intimidation occurred at the detention centre where he was held. “But I said I’m not afraid, I’m not wrong,” said Amsal during the virtual meeting with DPR RI Commission III held at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Monday. Amsal attended the meeting accompanied by DPR RI Commission III member Hinca Panjaitan, who also accompanied Amsal at the detention centre. Meanwhile, other DPR RI Commission III members monitored from the DPR RI. In response, Amsal said he did not want any more young people in Indonesia to be criminalised like him. He wanted to be the last creative economy actor who had to deal with the law. “I said no, I will continue to fight. Even though I know many people say you will be buried, if you fight you will be buried,” he said. Meanwhile, Hinca, who accompanied Amsal at the location, assessed that the case contradicted the spirit of President Prabowo Subianto, who is fighting to advance the creative economy. According to him, the prosecutor’s assessment of editing services and ideas that should be valued at zero rupiah is an insult to creative economy actors. Do not let, he said, creative economy actors in the future not be appreciated. “We ask the Attorney General to immediately withdraw these prosecutors and the head of the district prosecutor’s office, because if everything is like this, we are actually judging young people with creativity in the future who do not have mens rea,” said Hinca.