Police to stage reconstruction, election document forgery case

The National Police are scheduled on Monday to stage a reconstruction at the General Election Commission (KPU) in relation to the alleged forgery of a 2009 election document.
“We will stage a reconstruction at the KPU tomorrow [Monday],” National Police general crimes director Brig. Gen. Agung Sabar Santoso said on Sunday evening as quoted by tribunnews.com.
“Those attending the KPU plenary session will be involved in the reconstruction,” he said, declining to name anyone.
The KPU held a plenary session in 2009 to announce the Constitutional Court ruling on a dispute between Dewi Yasin Limpo of the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) and Mestariyani Habie of the Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) for a seat at the House of Representatives representing the South Sulawesi I electoral district.
The KPU announced that the Hanura candidate had won the seat, before it knew that it had read a forged explanatory letter from the court.
Agung said that the reconstruction was aimed to match testimonies from witnesses and the actual event in the plenary.
The police have questioned several witnesses in relation to the case, including former KPU commissioner Andi Nurpati, who is currently a member of the ruling Democratic Party; former Constitutional Court Judge Arsyad Sanusi; and several KPU and Constitutional Court staff members.
The police have detained a suspect in the case, Mashuri Hasan, a former staff member of the Constitutional Court.