"We hope all the process will run fairly. The principal of presumption of innocent until proven guilty must be applied and trial by the public must be prevented," Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said here, on Thursday.
The team for Indonesian citizen protection in cooperation with the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur were accompanying Aisyah for her first trial at the Sepang District Court, Wednesday (March 1).
Aisyah is charged with section 302 of Malaysian penal code about murder with maximum penalty of death sentence.
According to Nasir, Aisyahs lawyers who were hired by Indonesian embassy, had filed a gag order to the judge which was basically a request for the investigators to not convey the investigastion results to the public.
Such request, which was accepted by the judge, was needed to keep the ongoing legal process from any disturbance.
The Indonesian government, at the same time, calls on all parties to respect the legal process regarding the case of Siti Aisyah by implementing the presumption of innocence principle.
"Her lawyers are intensively working to defend Aisyah. We would like to ensure that she is facing a fair legal process. The principal is that she is not guilty until the judge says so," Nasir noted.
The second trial for Aisyah will be held on April 13. Currently, her defense team which consists of five lawyers from Gooi and Azura legal firm, is preparing argumentation to prepare their official meeting with Aisyah next week.
Aisyah, a second woman traveling on a Vietnamese passport, and a boyfriend of one of them, have been arrested by the Royal Malaysian Police, on suspicion of involvement in the death of Jong-nam.
The Malaysian authority has detained her the fourth suspect, a North Korean citizen, in connection with the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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