Police Investigate Mentality Of School Burner Junior High School Students Because Of Heartache Often Bullyed

Temanggung Police Chief AKBP Agus Puryadi. ANTARA/Heru Suyitno

TemanGGung - Temanggung Resort Police, Central Java, studied the mental condition of the student with the initials R (13) who burned several classrooms where she studied SMP Negeri 2 Pringsurat, Temanggung Regency.

Temanggung Police Chief AKBP Agus Puryadi said to deepen the mentality of the suspect his party would coordinate with the Central Java Police Psychology Bureau.

"We will bring in a psychologist from the Central Java Police to explore the mental status of the person concerned," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, June 30.

Previously, Agus said that R burned several classrooms at SMP Negeri 2 Pringsurat on Tuesday (27/6) in the morning, because he felt hurt that his friends were often bullied, including by teachers who he thought did not pay attention to them.

"This means that this is subjective to the students' feelings. This is proven when they have a pre-employment and by the teacher they think it's normal, they want it to be the best," he said.

He said that from the accumulation of some of the relatively subjective heartaches, he burned down the school.

Agus said that because he was proven to have committed a crime by intentionally burning, the suspect was threatened with Article 81 paragraph 2 of Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning the Criminal Justice of Children.

"Child perpetrators can be imposed no later than half of the maximum threat of imprisonment for adults," he said.

However, he said it was based on the child's justice because the person concerned was not 14 years old so he was not detained, but was entrusted to his parents and asked to report.