Lim’s lawyer La Ode Surya Alirman said the case was an “old” one “resurrected to persecute my client”, dating back to 2018 when it was dismissed by the Supreme Court “for lack of evidence” and Lim was acquitted.
Citing the principle of double jeopardy, which is enshrined in Indonesian law, Alirman said Lim could not be charged and tried for the same offence twice.
Another lawyer on Lim’s team, Priyono Adi Nugroho, said Lim “regularly took on pro bono cases to represent ordinary people with no access to power against corporate entities. He did not shy away from publicly exposing their collusion with law enforcers wherever he found it”.
Things seemed to go downhill for Lim after he posted dozens of videos on his YouTube channel, Quotient TV, in September and October, laying bare corruption within the state attorney’s office and the police force. With 144,000 subscribers, three “mafia den” videos had 403,000 views.
