TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - As many as 349 joint officers of East Java Police, Surabaya Resort Police, and Sawahan Sector Police dispatched to secure the verdict trial of Ahmad Dhani in Surabaya District Court, Tuesday, June 11.

Surabaya Police operation head Comr. Anton Elfrino said that the trial initially scheduled at 13:00 local time was forwarded an hour.

“So we stand by earlier,” said Anton after leading the troop ceremony in the backyard of the court. The assigned officers are mobile brigade (Brimob), public order squad or Sabhara, and traffic unit, tasked inside and outside the court building.

Anton ordered several Brimob personnel to form a fence of legs (pagar betis) along the road possibly passed by the musician from his arrival until entering the trial room. While, traffic police were instructed to manage the traffic flow on Jalan Arjuno, in front of the court building.

The trial would be led by Judge Anton Widyopriyono.

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In the previous trial, the prosecutor demanded the leader of a music group Dewa 19 with one year and 6 months in jail for spreading hate speech on his Instagram account as he violated Article 45 (3) in conjunction with Article 27(3) of the Information and Electronic Transactions Law (UU ITE).

The case began on August 26, 2018, when Ahmad Dhani planned to lead an event of #2019GantiPresiden or #2019ChangethePresident in Tugu Pahlawan, Surabaya. The plan was halted because Majapahit Hotel he stayed in was surrounded by hundreds of people joined in Elemen Bela NKRI. He then created a vlog and calling those people idiot.

KUKUH S. WIBOWO