conviction On 22 December 2020, East Jakarta District Court sentenced Djoko Tjandra to two years and six months in jail for falsification of travel documents, COVID-19 test certificates and health recommendation letters. Presiding judge M. Sirad said that although Tjandra had committed the crimes while a fugitive and endangered public health by traveling without a COVID-19 test, he was spared a heavier sentence because he is elderly and had been polite during his trial. Tjandra's lawyer, Soesilo Aribowo, complained the verdict was too heavy and claimed Tjandra had never requested a travel permit. 2021 bribery conviction On 5 April 2021, Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court convicted Djoko Tjandra of corruption for giving bribes that went to two police officers and a state prosecutor. He was sentenced to four years and six months in jail and fined Rp100 million. Judges said mitigating considerations in his favor were his politeness during the trial and his advanced age. State prosecutor Junaedi had earlier recommended Tjandra be jailed for four years and fined Rp100 million for giving bribes to civil servants or state officials in a criminal conspiracy involving corruption. Tjandra on 15 March 2021 told the court he had paid fees to facilitate his return to Indonesia but claimed he did not know the money would be used as bribes. He earlier said his actions were not a big problem because the payments had caused no state losses and were made in Malaysia, so there should be no domestic relationship to Indonesia. Tjandra claimed he was a victim of fraud perpetrated by Pinangki and another state prosecutor, Rahmat, who had convinced him to pay fees. Tjandra said he gave Andi Irfan Jaya $500,000 as a down-payment for a requested $1 million fee for Pinangki to secure a Supreme Court fatwa that would enable him to return to Indonesia without serving his 2 year jail sentence from 2009. He said the 2009 sentence was a violation of the Criminal Procedure Code and a miscarriage of justice, making him a victim of injustice and human rights violations. The court heard that Pinangki and Andi Irfan formulated a 10-point "action plan" that involved a proposal to spend $10 million on bribing officials at the Attorney General's Office and the Supreme Court. Tjandra claimed he canceled the action plan because he deemed it fraudulent. Of the money given to Pinangki, Tjandra said $200,000 was a legal fee for his