Dudu Duswara

Dudu Duswara Machmudin (c. 1951 – 10 December 2020) was an Indonesian judge, lawyer, and academic.

[2] He also held lectures on the role of the Supreme Court in appeals cases within the Indonesian justice system.

[1] In 2014, Justice Duswara made national headlines when he sentenced Herman Jumat Masan, a former pastor from Maumere, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, to death for the murder of his girlfriend and both of their children.

[3] Duswara's ruling overturned Jumat Masan's earlier sentences of life in prison, which had been handed down by the Maumere District Court and the Kupang High Courts in East Nusa Tenggara.

[1] Duswara died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia at Sentosa Asih Hospital in Bandung, West Java, on December 10, 2020, at the age of 69.