Jokowi approves release of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir

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Jokowi approves release of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta/Sat, January 19, 2019/09:48 am

Police officers escort terrorism convict Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to the Cilacap District Court in Central Java for a hearing on his case review. (thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono )


Convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Ba’asyir will be unconditionally released from Gunung Sindur prison in Bogor, West Java, as he has received a pardon from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
Abdul Rahim, a son of Ba'asyir, said on Friday that the family had received news of the pardon from the President’s lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra. Yusril had visited Ba’asyir to tell him that Jokowi had agreed to set him free despite him having over six years left to serve in prison.
He would be released early next week pending an administrative process.
“This is purely for humanitarian reasons. He is old, so the president will release him unconditionally,” Abdul said.
He said Ba’asyir would return to Surakarta and live with him.
Ba’asyir has been in prison for eight years after being sentenced to 15 years by the South Jakarta District Court in 2011. The court found him guilty of funding a military training camp for terrorists in Aceh.
Yusril, who is also an adviser to the Jokowi-Ma’ruf Amin presidential campaign team, said because Ba’asyir is now 81 years old and has a deteriorating health condition, it was time to release him.
“Jokowi said he was very concerned about Ba’asyir’s condition and therefore asked me to examine [his release], start a dialogue and meet him at the prison,” Yusril said in a statement.
Ba'asyir also expressed gratitude and thanked all those who had taken the initiative to release him.
Jokowi confirmed the cleric’s release on humanitarian grounds but he refused to expand on the details of the legal mechanism that enabled the release.
“Please ask the National Police chief about the details,” he told reporters on the sidelines of his visit to an Islamic boarding school in Garut, West Java.

Source: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/01/18/jokowi-pardons-firebrand-cleric-abu-bakar-baasyir.html


Analysis

This news is talking about Jokowi’s approval of releasing Abu Bakar Ba’asyir. Convicted terrorist, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, will be unconditionally released from Gunung Sindur prison in Bogor, West Java, as he has received a pardon from Jokowi. Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, who was proven guilty of funding a military training camp for terrorists in Aceh, will be released early next week for humanity reason. Humanity reason here is because he, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, is already on his 81st year old. Here I’m going to analyze the audience of news and the channel of news.
            The first point is the audience of news. There are two things in the audience of news, audience identification and audience response.  The audience of the news includes the geographical proximity, interest, and characteristics. The news is giving the most recent issues based on the geographical proximity which took place in Indonesia. The journalist of this news has made sure to consider the point of interest and characteristic of the news because this issue is talking about the terrorist who will be released from the prison.
            The audience responses of this news seem not really good. Most of the comments below the news are showing their disappointment. But disappointment here is not talking about the way journalist delivers the news, they are disappointed by the news itself. They are disappointed because the president decided to release Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, who was a terrorist, only because of his old age. Some audiences (readers) feel like they will be affected by Jokowi’s decision especially those who concern about politics. But for the way journalist deliver the news, there’s no comment about it.

            The second point that I would like to analyze is the channel of news. This news was published in the Jakarta post online website. Based on the explanation last week, newspaper consists of publisher and city editor. In this news, the publisher did a great job in publishing the news because of the recent issue and delivered it as it is. Not only that, but the city editor also did a great job because the news that they delivered is good quality news.

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