ahmadajah03 Wed Jun 2020 2 years ago

Demands that President Jokowi resign, who is actually the figure behind former TNI member Ruslan Buton?

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV - Ruslan Buton, a suspect in a hate speech case, faces 6 years in prison after a recording of his voice urging President Joko Widodo to resign circulated on social media.

Legal Advisor Ruslan Buton assessed that police investigators were in a hurry to detain the suspect.

Ruslan Buton has officially been detained at National Police Headquarters for the next 20 days.

Ruslan faces a maximum prison sentence of 6 years after being charged with multiple articles of Law Number 1 of 1946 concerning criminal law regulations and the law on information and electronic transactions.

Tonin Tachta Singarimbun, Ruslan Buton's legal advisor, immediately proposed a suspension of detention and urged investigators to immediately bring in experts in the investigation.

Ruslan was arrested by the Joint Criminal Investigation Team of the National Police and Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police on Thursday 28 May 2020 after a voice recording calling for the resignation of President Joko Widodo circulated on social media.

Kombes Ahmad Ramadhan, Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, said that the suspect, Ruslan Buton, admitted that all the voice recordings in circulation were his.

Ruslan Buton is a former mid-level TNI Army officer with the rank of Captain who was fired in connection with a murder case in 2017.

Previously, he was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months in prison, then released and said to have founded the Tri Matra Nusantara soldiers.

Ruslan Buton's legal advisor, Tonin Tachta Singarimbun, said that Ruslan Buton refused to be detained because Ruslan felt he was only expressing opinions and ideas in literary language, not expressing hate speech.

Prof. Hermawan Sulistyo, Head of the Center for National Security Studies, Bhayangkara University, Greater Jakarta, said that the language used by Ruslan Buton was an invitation to move.

As for the implications of a statement or movement, you must first look at who is speaking. The reason is, during a pandemic like this, there is a lot of news that is considered true, so Ruslan's statement has the potential to be disturbing.
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