The Petitioner’s legal counsel, I Made Subagio, at a ruling hearing for case No. 44/PUU-XXII/2024 on Monday (7/15/2024). Photo by MKRI/Bayu.

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JAKARTA, MKRI - The Constitutional Court (MKRI) approved the withdrawal of petition Number 44/PUU-XXII/2024 concerning the Judicial Review of Law Number 11 of 1980 concerning the Crime of Bribery of Financial/Administrative Rights of Leaders and Members of the Highest State Institutions and Former Members of the Highest State Institutions and Former Leaders of the Highest State Institutions and Former Members of the Highest State Institutions. This petition was filed by a citizen named Vigit Waluyo, residing in Pondok Jati, Buduran Subdistrict, Sidoarjo Regency.

“[The Court] grants the withdrawal of the Petitioner’s petition,” said Chief Justice Suhartoyo alongside the other eight constitutional justices during the pronouncement of Decree Number 44/PUU-XXII/2024 on Monday, July 15, 2024 in the plenary courtroom.

Suhartoyo said that the Court had scheduled a preliminary hearing of the petition on July 2, 2024. However, before the hearing was held, the Court received a letter from the Petitioners requesting to withdraw the case on June 14, 2024, because the Petitioners had been sentenced by a legally binding verdict and had served four months of imprisonment.

Also read: Having Served His Sentence, Petitioner Withdraws Petition on Anti-Bribery Law

Previously, at a hearing on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, legal counsel I Made Subagio revealed that he had been asked by the Petitioner to withdraw the petition. “We [requested the withdrawal] on June 14, 2024 [with a letter] on the withdrawal of the judicial review petition of Article 2 of Law No. 11 of 1980 on the Criminal Act of Bribery on the Financial/Administrative Rights of Leaders and Members of the Highest/High State Institutions and Former Members of High State Institutions and Former Leaders of the Highest/High State Institutions and Former Members of the High State Institutions,” he explained.

He stressed that the Petitioner had been found guilty and served a four-year prison sentence based on a decision that had permanent legal force. He added that the Petitioner would like to withdraw the petition. 

Author            : Mimi Kartika
Editor             : N. Rosi
PR                 : Fauzan F.
Translators     : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar/Rizky Kurnia Chaesario (NL)

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