25 January 2011By Al-Ikhwah
Al-Mujahidun
Ubaid alias Luthfi Haidaroh
disputed the statement of the expert witness Prof. Dr.
Sarwito Sarwono who mentioned that the military
training in Aceh had created terror on the public of
Aceh specifically and the society of Indonesia
generally.
According to Ubaid, the conclusion of the expert
witness was not objective, because the participants in
the exercise never terrorized the public.
"We trained on the mountain which are not
accessible to the public how can we be said as
terrorizing the society?" he said.
Furthermore, according to him, the people of Aceh are
in fact supporting their activities, with the presence
of aids in the form of food when they were in
hardships and it was also the population of Aceh who
had helped them in organizing the training there.
"The people of Aceh helped us a lot there,
especially when we did not have food to eat,"
Ubaid said.
He said this when disputing the conclusion made by the
expert witness presented by the prosecutors at his
trial in the District Court of West Jakarta, Thursday
(13/1/2011) which stated that the terror perpetrated
by Ubaid's group had a very big impact because their
group are from outside the community of Aceh who are
not congruent and not of the same thinking with the
people of Aceh.
According to him again, the ones who should be blamed
for the occurrence of a tense atmosphere in Aceh are
the security apparatuses, because it was the
apparatuses who carried out the attack on the mountain
and chased them.
"We trained far away from the public, it was the
apparatuses who later raided us and shot first,
resulting in armed clashes," Ubaid said.
In harmony with him, according to Abu Yusuf, another
defendant, the expert witnesses are not entitled to
justify as such, because they did not do any terror in
the actual events, instead it was them who were
attacked by the apparatuses.
"There was no work of terror there, what happened
was that we were attacked by the apparatuses,"
Abu Yusuf said.
According to him, the judges should not look on a
one-sided opinion of the expert witnesses without
seeing the facts on the ground, because the expert
witnesses are not the experts in matters of military
and terrorism, as well as not being there on the
scene. If a paradigm like this allowed to continue,
according to him, it would be dangerous for the
handling of legal cases in the future.
"The expert witnesses did not know the actual
circumstances, the judges should look at other legal
facts," Abu Yusuf, one of the trainers at the
military camp of Aceh, said.
According to him also, they were conducting the
ibaadah
of i'dad there, not as
alleged i.e. committing terror. In fact, they did not
attack the officers whom they met when conducting
investigations.
"One fact that must be understood by the judges,
we've met with the group of the sector police who
carried weapons but we did not kill them," Abu
Yusuf said.
"This shows we only intend to
practice, not to terrorize, what we saw was that the
apparatus were firing as they like," he added.
As known, Ubaid alias Luthfi Haidaroh is charged with
the allegation of helping the acts of terrorism. He is
charged with Article 15 in conjunction with Article 7,
Article 15 in conjunction with Article 9, Article 11
in conjunction with Article 7, Article 11 in
conjunction with Article 9, and Article 13 leter C
Anti-Terrorism Laws No. 15 year 2003. Besides that,
Ubaid is also charged with the article 1 verse 1 Laws
of Emergency No. 12 year 1951.
A session with the agenda to prosecute the defendants
will resume again next two weeks on 27th January 2011.
Meanwhile, in another trial
session, Sofyan Tsauri, a former member of
Brimob was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Sofyan was
otherwise found guilty of selling firearms to the
participants of the Aceh military training. This
sentence is 5 years lighter than what the prosecutor
demanded i.e. 15 years.
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