JAKARTA
- 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.