MEMPAWAH, thekabarnews.com—The Mempawah District Court in West Kalimantan sentenced Edy Mulyadi (Edy Chou) to four years and six months in prison on Monday, September 28. The court sentenced Edy for trading lubricants that failed to meet applicable product standards.

The sentence clarifies an inconsistency in the initial account, which referred to a four-year term. The presiding judge’s statement and contemporary court reporting put the punishment at four years and six months.

“The court declares defendant Edy Mulyadi, also known as Edy Chou, legally and convincingly guilty of trading goods that failed to meet applicable standards and statutory requirements. The court sentences him to four years and six months in prison,” presiding judge Andi Bungawali Anastasia said.

Edy objected to the ruling after the hearing. He argued that prosecutors had not identified a customer who suffered a proven loss after using the lubricants he sold.

“The sentence is extremely harsh because the case is a consumer protection case, yet no consumer suffered any loss,” Edy said outside the courtroom.

His statement represented the defendant’s position and did not alter the court’s finding that the products breached mandatory standards. No formal appeal announcement had been independently verified when this article was prepared.

The proceedings were registered as case No. 264/Pid.Sus/2026/PN Mpw. Earlier in the case, the judges temporarily changed Edy’s detention status from custody to city detention. The court ordered the change on July 27.

The West Kalimantan Prosecutor’s Office said prosecutors implemented that decision under the authority of the judicial panel.

The case originated from a raid on a warehouse at the Extra Joss warehousing complex on Arteri Supadio Road in Sungai Raya, Kubu Raya Regency, on June 20, 2025. A joint team discovered large quantities of lubricants carrying several brand names.

Officers reported that an official verification system could not identify the barcodes on some products.

The investigators then confiscated the goods. They continued to trace the origin, documentation and compliance with the Indonesian National Standard (SNI).

The West Kalimantan Police handed Edy and the case evidence over to prosecutors on July 8, 2026, after investigators completed the case file. Consequently, the case proceeded under Indonesia’s consumer-protection framework.

Article 8 of Law No. 8/1999 on the Protection of Consumers prohibits the business operator from producing or selling goods that do not meet the legally required standards.

The law also requires companies to guarantee the quality of their products.

The decision ends the trial at the district-court level. Any further developments will be up to Edy and the prosecutors to seek the legal remedy available to them.