to the president. Yudhoyono's office appealed the ruling on behalf of Akbar and Indrati, succeeding after the Jakarta High Administrative Court found that the petition against Akbar and Indrati lacked legal standing for the challenge. Alongside Aswanto, Akbar was one of several judges or former judges who had spoken out in favor of a Constitutional Court ruling to ban premarital sex. In June 2015, Akbar rejected a judicial review requested by children's rights groups to raise Indonesia's minimum age for marriage for women from 16 to 18. He said there was no guarantee raising the age limit would reduce the incidence of divorce, health problems or social problems. Corruption arrest and conviction Akbar's tenure on the Constitutional Court was cut short despite the presidential appeals that had led to his initial appointment. In January 2017, the Corruption Eradication Commission arrested Akbar and 10 other defendants in a sting operation on suspicion of corruption in an animal health law. Constitutional Chief Justice Arief Hidayat led an investigation into three justices, clearing fellow justices Manahan Sitompul and I Dewa Gede Palguna but finding enough evidence for Akbar's dismissal. On 4 September 2017, Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced Akbar to eight years in jail and fined him Rp300 million. The court found he had accepted bribes from a beef importer in connection with a judicial review of the 2014 Animal Husbandry and Livestock Health Law. Patrialis only received US$10,000 or half of the amount of US$20,000 given [as bribes] from businessman Basuki Hariman through [middleman] Kamaluddin. In August 2019, the Supreme Court said it had cut Akbar's sentence to seven years in jail, saying there were mitigating circumstances: he had only received half of the bribe money, and he had spent Rp4 million of that money on playing golf with Kamaluddin, the middleman. The Supreme Court judges who cut his sentence were Andi Samsan Nganro, L.L. Hutagalung and Sri Murwahyuni. References External links Profile 20th-century Indonesian lawyers 1958 births Living people Minangkabau people People from Padang Government ministers of Indonesia National Mandate Party politicians 21st-century Indonesian judges