Gregorius Ronald Tannur’s Acquittal Injures Justice, National Commission on Violence Against Women Supports Cassation – 2024-07-29 22:30:09

The father of the late Dini Sera Afriyanti (right) reports the panel of judges at the Surabaya District Court who acquitted Gregorius Ronald Tannur (MI/Usman Iskandar)

THE National Commission on Violence Against Women considers the acquittal of defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur to be a bad record in law enforcement in cases of violence against women and confirms the prejudice that the law is blunt towards those above, but sharp towards those below.

“The acquittal verdict from the Panel of Judges at the Surabaya District Court against the defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur has violated the fulfillment of the rights to justice for the victim and his family,” said National Commission on Violence Against Women member Tiasri Wiandani, when confirmed in Jakarta, Monday.

The National Commission on Violence Against Women supports the public prosecutor (JPU) to file a cassation appeal and asks the Supreme Court Supervisory Body (Bawas MA) and the Judicial Commission (KY) to pay attention and supervise this case as an effort to fulfill the rights to justice and recovery of the victim and the victim’s family.

Tiasri Wiandani said that the incident of abuse that caused the victim’s death on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, showed a deliberate process to cause extraordinary physical and psychological suffering to the victim, namely beatings from inside the room, to the parking lot, placing the victim in the trunk, recording with mockery, running over with a car, and delaying taking the victim to the hospital.

“This series of abuses shows that the type of violence committed can be categorized as femicide, namely the murder of a woman for a specific reason or because she is a woman, in an unequal power relationship based on gender towards the perpetrator, in this case the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator who is her boyfriend,” he said.

On Wednesday (24/7), the panel of judges at the Surabaya District Court, East Java, acquitted Gregorius Ronald Tannur, the son of former member of the Indonesian House of Representatives Edward Tannur, of all charges in the assault case that resulted in the death of his girlfriend, Dini Sera Afrianti. (Z-7)