JAKARTA, LITERASIHUKUM.COM — The Advocacy Team for Security Sector Reform has submitted a petition for Andrie Yunus to be accepted as a related party in case Number 260/PUU-XXIII/2025 at the Constitutional Court. This case concerns the judicial review of a law of Law Number 31 of 1997 concerning Military Courts, specifically the norms that have been questioned because they are considered to provide too broad a scope for military courts to try TNI soldiers, including when they are suspected of committing general crimes.

The Constitutional Court petition is submitted against the background of Andrie's position as a victim of an acid attack allegedly involving four members of Denma BAIS TNI. The advocacy team believes that Andrie's experience provides direct relevance to the judicial review of a law, because the case against him is being directed to the jurisdiction of the military court. In its arguments, the advocacy team stated that this condition reveals a fundamental problem in Article 9 number (1) of the Military Court Law, which uses the phrase “criminal act” without clearly distinguishing between military crimes and general crimes.

The objection is based on a conflict of norms with Article 65 paragraph (2) of Law Number 34 of 2004 concerning the TNI, which stipulates that soldiers are subject to military courts for violations of military criminal law, but are subject…