Housewife standing trial for web-based social networking post

Yusniar, a 27-year-old housewife, never imagined that a remark on her own Facebook record would place her in confinement, prompt to a trial and conceivably send her to imprison.

An occupant of Jl. Sultan Alauddin in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Yusniar has been accused of disregarding the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law and the Criminal Code (KUHP) on maligning, which convey a greatest punishment of six years in jail.

She was confined by the Makassar prosecutor's office on Oct. 24 and has been experiencing trial at the Makassar District Court since Nov. 2.

The case started when Sudirman Sijaya, a councilor of the Jeneponto authoritative chamber in South Sulawesi, who said he was additionally a legal advisor, documented a report against Yusniar over a Facebook post.

She composed a status on March 14 in Makassarese that read: "Express gratitude toward God. The issue is at last over. Moronic councilor, dumb legal counselor. [You] need to help a liable individual, [but it is] plainly my folks' territory [that you] came and irritated."

The post came a day after her parent's home on Jl. Sultan Alauddin was assaulted by 100 individuals, including Sudirman. Yusniar did not say any names in her status.

Yusniar's legal advisor, Abdul Azis Dumpa of the Makassar Legal Aid Institute (LBH), said on Thursday that the charge was constrained and did not have any legitimate standing.

"The status on my customer's Facebook account did not contain components of put-down or slander in light of the fact that no name was specified. The offended party does not have legitimate standing," he said.

In any case, Sudirman demanded that the status obviously alluded to him and was freely thought about.

"I didn't think about Facebook. I think about the status on the grounds that numerous individuals let me know that I was manhandled and offended," he said.

In the interim, Yusniar scrutinized the case, saying she composed the status just as a type of expression as she was enthusiastic after the swarm harmed her folks' home. The property had been included in a family debate between her dad Baharuddin and his sister Daeng Kebo.

Endeavors to settle the debate were made by the Pa'baeng-baeng subdistrict organization yet Daeng Kebo neglected to go to.

"Out of the blue on March 13 a gathering of somewhere in the range of 100 individuals came, instantly harming [the property], however we ceased them," Yusniar said, including that somebody then hollered, "Simply wreck it! I am a councilor and a legal advisor".

"Actually we didn't know who had come," she said.

Tamalate Police staff prevented the swarm from wrecking the house. The police additionally sorted out a meeting between the two questioning gatherings and Sudirman arranged a record for a quiet understanding. The case was not prosecuted and Baharuddin considered it over.

The occasion propelled Yusniar to compose the Facebook status that later prompted to her confinement. She and her dad went to Sudirman three times in Jeneponto to apologize and request that he stop the case, yet Sudirman cannot, she said.

Two proposition for suspended confinement have been documented yet have not yet been allowed.

The case adds to a rundown of individuals embroiled in wrongdoings due to the draconian law, which has been esteemed by the general population as a danger to opportunity of expression. The most notorious was housewife Prita Mulyasari, who was proclaimed blameworthy and sent to jail for whining about OMNI International Hospital in 2009 through a private email that became famous online. The latest case included a man in Medan, North Sumatra, who was sentenced to 14 months in jail in August for being labeled in a story on Facebook.

The House of Representatives passed an updated draft of the ITE Law on Oct. 27, which gave more detail on online slander to keep different understandings. Be that as it may, encourage steps are pending and the law has not yet produced results.