Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 20 Part 2 "Borba se nastavlja"

POV Muhamed

The trial was over, the person who wanted to see Karim behind bars finally got what he wanted. I didn't know what else I could do but pray with Karim's parents at his house after the judge gave his decision. If only I could do what Ilya and brother Lodewijk did I would have done it long ago but I'm not them. I feel like the most useless person. I am not the strongest, smartest or influential among my friends, whether I exist or not, it doesn't seem like it will change the situation, reality is often disappointing.

ten days have passed, four more days are left before the deadline for filing an appeal is up and there has not been any notification from brother Lodewijk nor from my other friends about whether they will make an appeal or not, have they given up too? Suddenly when I was daydreaming in Karim's room I got WA messages from brother Lodewijk and Ilya telling me about their findings.

The judges and the public prosecutor that brother Lodewijk faced at the trial of Karim's case had apparently been bribed using Bitcoin digital cryptocurrency and he with my other friends had gathered the evidence. Brother Lodewijk has reported the bribery act anonymously to Fiscale Inlichtingen - en opsporingsdienst and Team Criminele Inlichtingen through their website and call services since the eighth day before the deadline for filing an appeal for Karim's case runs out. However, until now there has not been any action from those institutions regarding the report that brother Lodewijk had made so he asked me to report this to the high court.

In the end, I asked my uncle and aunt for permission to go to the city of Bandung to report the act of receiving bribery that the public prosecutor and the judges faced by brother Lodewijk did in the trial of the case that happened to Karim so that they allowed me to go to the city of Bandung while brother Lodewijk is still here to file an appeal for Karim's case.

The task that brother Lodewijk received was more difficult than what I received because in order to file an appeal, bother Lodewijk had to submit the case file to the junior registrar for criminal cases at the first counter at the registrar's office inside the Sucilangkung city court building to register for an appeal.

The problem that brother Lodewijk faced is, everyone who reads or watches the news will know who brother Lodewijk is and he has the idea that the registrar at the registrar's office will not handle the files for the appeal of Karim's case because there is a possibility that many registrars at the registrar's office have been silenced or bribed to anticipate this.

I thought for a moment about how the files for Karim's case could be received and processed until I came up with an idea that might be bad but could work. I shared the idea with sister Tantri, brother Lodewijk, Ilya and mevrouw Sofia through our WA group. At first, only mevrouw Sofia agreed and because Karim's fate was on the line in the end they all agreed.

I sent an open invitation to my friends who are in the law faculty including to the head of the law faculty Student Executive Board so that they want to go together to the Sucilangkung city court building to register Karim's case file at the registrar's office that I sent to the faculty of law students's WhatsApp group and Line group. Before sending the invitation message I tried to make the wording as best as I could then after I thought the invitation message sounds good enough I shared it to mevrouw Sofia, brother Lodewijk, sister Tantri and to Ilya first and after they gave their approval, I send it.

"Dear fellow law faculty students.

All of you probably don't know me so let me introduce myself first. I am Muhamed Sokolović, cousin of Karim Dawala Sokolović, you may have heard or know Karim's name through the news which is often conveyed through various mass media.