VIVAnews - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will handle Prita Mulyasari case, a housewife who has been accused of violating Law on Information and Electronic Transaction (ITE).
"If it is true that the prosecutors had applied articles in ITE [Law] apart from the investigation carried out by the Indonesian Police, Attorney General will order Jamwas [Deputy Attorney General for Supervision] to impose firm sanction on whoever prosecutor involved," AGO spokesperson Jasman Panjaitan told VIVAnews on Wednesday, June 3.
The sanction will be given to prosecutors who had disobeyed the procedure, mainly to the one applying Law on ITE to the mother of two.
The case began as Mulyasari went to Omni Internasional Hospital on 7 August 2009 for a check-up. Upon returning home, she complained about the hospital's services as well as the doctor who examined her to her circle of friends through e-mail .
Omni Internasional Hospital considered the e-mail as aspersion. It led to Mulyasari arrest on 13 May 2009.
Omni Internasional Hospital's legal adviser Risma Situmorang said the hospital objected with the e-mail. "We object because she wrote in the e-mail 'fraud by Omni Internasional Alam Sutera Hospital'," Situmorang told VIVAnews on Tuesday, June 2.
The hospital filed a lawsuit against Mulyasari demanding Rp 520 billion of compensation for the immaterial losses and Rp 131 million for material losses which had been previously won by the hospital.
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Translated by: Ariyantri E. Tarman
