JAKARTA, Thekabarnews.com—The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) has confirmed that it will not give institutional legal assistance to its deputy chair of the advisory board, Grace Natalie. She is facing a legal report related to alleged provocation and hate speech. This involves a video of a sermon by former Vice President Jusuf Kalla.

The daily chairperson of the PSI, Ahmad Ali, stated that they treated Grace’s case as a personal matter. The matter was rather a political party issue.

He stressed that Grace Natalie must personally take responsibility for the legal consequences of the report filed against her.

“We as an institution confirm that we will not provide legal assistance through the party. This matter requires personal responsibility, not institutional intervention,” Ahmad Ali said during a Tuesday press conference at PSI headquarters in Central Jakarta.

Someone reported Grace and political commentator Ade Armando to the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim Polri). Social media activist Permadi Arya, or Abu Janda, also reported the incident.

On Monday, May 4, 2026, 40 Islamic mass organizations submitted the report. Syaefullah Hamid, a representative of LBH Hidayatullah, confirmed that the police had received the complaint officially.

“The police have accepted the report we filed against Ade Armando, Permadi Arya, and Grace Natalie. We have received the official report receipt,” he said at Bareskrim Polri headquarters in Jakarta.

Syaefullah said they took legal action to prevent religious tension from spreading wider. They also wanted to avoid possible conflict between religious communities.

“We want the Muslim community to respond to this issue through legal processes. This is because we want to avoid negative reactions that can damage religious harmony in Indonesia,” he said.

At the same event, investigators received several items of evidence from LBH Syarikat Islam representative Gurun Arisastra.

These included a shortened version of Jusuf Kalla’s sermon uploaded by Ade Armando on the Cokro TV YouTube channel. The video was posted on April 9, 2026.

Additional evidence came in the form of video clips uploaded by Permadi Arya on April 12 and Grace Natalie on April 13 from their personal social media accounts. However, the problem, Gurun said, was the incomplete video snippets. These created false public narratives.

The edited clips suggest that Jusuf Kalla was discussing Christian religious teachings on martyrdom. But the full 40-minute lecture actually focused on JK addressing public psychological concerns. It also clarified misconceptions about the concept of syahid, or martyrdom.

According to Gurun Arisastra, incomplete video clips shaped misleading narratives and prevented the public from understanding the full context.

“In fact, Jusuf Kalla actually said that the erroneous understanding of martyrdom was wrong, and such thinking will lead people away from salvation, not toward it,” he added.

But he said that crucial clarification was missing from the short clips released to the public.

The case has attracted national attention as it involves sensitive issues of religion, public interpretation, and political figures.

It also raises questions about social media’s framing of the issues and the responsibility of the public in political discourse.

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