TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Fadhil Alfathan sprang into action the moment he received word that military prosecutors planned to visit Andrie Yunus at Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Before dawn, Fadhil—a public-interest lawyer and member of the Advocacy Team for Democracy —along with eight other members of the legal team, had already stationed themselves near Andrie’s hospital pavilion. Andrie, an activist with the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), had been attacked with acid by members of the Strategic Intelligence Agency (Bais) of the Indonesian Military (TNI).
The Advocacy Team for Democracy is a coalition of lawyers assisting Andrie in the acid attack case. According to Fadhil, the military prosecutors claimed they were merely visiting the hospital to check on Andrie’s condition. “We rejected the request in accordance with Andrie’s wishes,” the Director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute told Tempo on Thursday, May 14.
The prosecutors sought to meet Andrie because judges at Military Court II-08 Jakarta had ordered that he be presented in court. Presiding judge Col. Fredy Ferdian Isnartanto, said Andrie’s testimony was needed to explore the impact of the attack and the string of intimidation incidents preceding the acid assault.
Fadhil said the prosecutors decided to meet with hospital management after being denied direct access to Andrie. The hospital requested that members of the Advocacy Team accompany the meeting, which lasted less than an hour. Fadhil and three of his colleagues joined the discussion. It was the first meeting between Andrie’s lawyers and the military prosecutors since the case was transferred to the TNI Military Police Center on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
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