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AGO GRILLS HEAD OF BANTEN HIGH PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

Jakarta, June 9 (ANTARA) - A supervisory team of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) here on Tuesday grilled Dondy K Sudirman, head of the Banten High Public Prosecutor's Office on the Prita Mulyasari case.

"As a follow up of the previos grilling on Monday (June 8), the supervisory team led by Inspector of Employment and General Tasks Adjat Sudrajat, will extract more information from the Banten high public prosecutor's office," Jasman Pandjaitan, head of the AGO's Legal Information Center, said here on Tuesday.

Pandjaitan said the team has previously also questioned Rahardjo Budi Krisnanto, head of the Banten high public prosecutor's office's pre-prosecution section, and Indra Gunawan, assistant head of the Banten high public prosecutor's office's general crimes Unit.

Previously, the supervisory team had grilled public prosecutors Rahmawati Utami and Riyadi, as well as Irfan Jaya Aziz, head of the Tangerang public prosecutor's office's general crimes section.

However, Pandjaitan said the results of the investigations could not be released yet.

Prita Mulyasari (32) was reported to the Tangerang police by Omni International Hospital in Tangerang, Banten, for her e-mail to her friends expressing her disappointment about the hospital's alleged unsatisfactory services to her as a patient.

The hospital accused her of having tarnished its name and she was later detained based on Law Number 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions.

She had been in jail since August 15, 2008 when she was finally released last week but was put under city arrest and arraigned in court charged with a criminal offense punishable with a maximum jail sentence of six years.

Her release followed calls from many quarters, including Vice President Jusuf Kalla and presidential candidate Megawati Soekarnoputri.

The Prita e-mail case had also drawn a reaction from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who called on the law enforcers concerned to use their heart and sense of justice in handling it.

Meanwhile, Hendrayana, executive director of the Press Legal Aid Institute (LBH), said here on Monday (June 8) that the Law on electronic transactions and information (ITE) should be revised because it is against democracy.

It will be a setback for democracy in Indonesia if the people's right to express their views is curtailed," he said.

The LBH had earlier filed for a judicial review of the law's artcile 27 by the Constitutional Court (MK) but the MK had not responded, he said. ***4***
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