Kasus UU ITE

1. What is the case?
   
   

The case is about Dhani Ahmad Prasetyo or we know as Ahmad Dhani. He is a famous musician from Indonesia that was violated UU ITE because his hate tweet on twitter. His twitter  account in 2017 shared the information on the twitter that can make people hate to a certain group. It is why Ahmad Dhani entangled UU ITE case. This case was reported to the police by Jack Boyd Lapian, grandson of national hero Bernard Wilhelm Lapian. He reported three hate tweets from Ahmad Dhani. The first tweet from Ahmad Dhani on 7 Februar 2017, the second tweet on 6 March 2017 and the third tweet on 7 March 2017. When he was reported, he explain that all of the tweet was posted by Suryopratomo, the admin of his twitter. He said that he only wrote the second tweet that  posted on 6 March. While the tweet on 7 Februar was written by Fahrul Fauzi Putra, one of the success team of Ahmad Dhani in Pilkada Bekasi. At  the same time, he was being the Prospective Vice Regent from Bekasi. On the other side, the tweet on 7 March was written by Ashabi Akhyar, a volunteer that support Ahmad Dhani. Ahmad Dhani and both of the volunteer sent the copy of the tweet using whatsapp to the Suryopratomo and then he posted it. Because of this tweets, Ahmad Dhani was reported to the police.

2. What chapter is violated?
   
   

His  actions were violated of two articles. They are Article 27 paragraph 3  about “pencemaran nama baik” and Article 28 paragraph 2 about “ujaran kebencian”. Both of the Article that was violated by Ahmad Dhani are UU ITE. 

3. What was the punishment?
   
   

Because of this case that violated UU ITE, Ahmad Dhani have to get punishment from the government. At first, he had to get an investigation from several expert such as language expert and ITE expert. Language expert said that his tweets consist of slander to a certain group. Then, ITE expert said that it was violated Article 27 paragraph 3 Undang-Undang ITE 2016. After all of the investigation were finished, Ahmad Dhani had a punishment from the government. The punishment is 18 months in the prison or 1 year 6 months. Now, he still doing the punishment.