The criminal act committed by Ferdy Sambo, a senior police officer of the Republic of Indonesia, in a case involving Joshua as a victim, has attracted the public's attention. This is quite interesting to study from a linguistic aspect, especially in Ferdy Sambo's plea. This research aims to determine the illocutionary speech act in Ferdy Sambo's plea entitled A Point of Hope in a Crowded Court Room. This study uses a qualitative method. Data collection in this research used library research. Meanwhile, the data analysis technique uses the Miles and Huberman interactive model. This research concludes that it is known that the illocutionary speech acts in Ferdy Sambo's plea entitled A Point of Hope in the Crowded Courtroom include representative illocutionary speech acts (stating, admitting, giving testimony, mentioning, speculating); directive illocutionary speech acts (requesting, forcing, urging, ordering, commanding, pleading); and expressive illocutionary speech acts (saying thank you, complaining, praising, criticizing).