PASSIVE VOICE

ECSTASY POSSESSION

Abuse not legal in questioning

Eny wulandari

The Jakarta post/JAKARTA

Police should not abuse witnesses during an investigation and it can be used againt5s them at trial, experts say.

National commission o human rights chairman ifdal kasim said Tuesday that this conduct cdould be considered an act against human rights.

Ifdal was among expert witnesses who testified in favor sukatma bin susandhi or aan, arrested and tried for possession of ectasy pill, in another hearing at the south Jakarta district court.

Ifdal also said that evidence that was obtained by violence and presented at trial could be considered a “fabrication”, breaching the investagion procedure.

“it is considered as a state failture not to protect citizens’ human rights,” ifdal said

Sr. Comr. Alfonso, indoneisan Institute of police science (PITK) rector, present as an expert witnesses, said that officers involved in violence during aan’s questioning could face the law.

Earlier,witnesses tyas rumanti said that the defendant, her husband, suffered several facial in juries. “ he was also handcuffed,” she said.

Tyas said that she had heard people in a meeting room on the eighth floor of the arta graham building,south Jakarta, where her husband hyad been interroatwd for possessing an ecstasy pill.

Alfonso said another possible procedural fault surrounding aan’s questioningwas that the Jakarta police had made the dossier of the questioning, while officer from Maluku police had questioned aan.

It is unusual that Jakarta police made the dossier but Maluku regional police interrogated aan,” he said.

Aan testified at Tuesday’s hearing that Maluku officers questioned him on illegal wapon ownership.

He said that Sr. Comr. Jhony siahaan had asked for him to show the location of the weapon otherwise the police would take the drug possession incident to trial.

“ I told them what I knew about the weapon based on secondhand accounts,” he said.

Aann said another officer, second brig. Oet put5uarima, later searched his clothes to discover a wallet.

After that, aan said, obet left the room where he was investigated and came in with the wallet wrapped in pplastic.

Obet, he added, showed him the drug wrapped in folded papper money.

He dained the money and drug was hi8s.”they did not ask me where I had received it,” he said.

“ I was beaten and kicked during the questioning session. They also forced me to take off my clithes,” said aan.

He added that he was bullied into signing the dossier of the drug case without reading it.

Prior to the questioning session, aan said he had been questioned twice over drug.

Aan was arrested by investigators from the Jakarta Police on Dec. 14 after investigators from the Maluku Regional Police had reportedly found 0,1467 grams of Ectasy.

He has been charged with article 112 of the 2009 narcotics law on illeal drug possession.