Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Lawyers for non-active Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, are preparing to report Novel Bamukmin, the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) city chapter secretary, to the police for perjury.
"We are now still transcribing Tuesday's hearing. We want to use Novel's exact words in the hearing as our basis for the report," Fifi Lety Indra, one of the lawyers, told The Jakarta Post, adding that Ahok's legal team aimed to finish the transcription on Friday evening.
Fifi said that Novel, a former employee of Pizza Hut restaurant, had lied under oath while testifying against Ahok, together with the other three witnesses during the hearing at the North Jakarta District Court.
"Novel said Ahok had killed two of his assistants without any evidence. He also said Ahok had orchestrated his imprisonment back in 2015," she said.
In April 2015, the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Novel to seven months in jail for public disturbance during a rally in front of the City Council during which several people were injured including police officers.
On Tuesday evening after the hearing, Ahok said he hoped Novel would be imprisoned if he was found guilty of perjury.
"If it is later proven that Novel gave false testimony in court, I hope he can be imprisoned for seven years," Ahok said, referring to provisions in the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) concerning perjury. (jun)