Getting To Know Arteria Dahlan And A Series Of Controversies

JAKARTA - A viral video shows a woman claiming to be the wife of a three-star TNI general cursing a woman at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng, Banten on Sunday, November 21, 2021. It is known that the woman being abused is the mother of a member of Commission III. DPR from the PDI-P faction, Arteria Dahlan.

Not accepting the incident, Arteria reported the person who cursed his mother to the authorities. The news was shared by the Deputy Chairman of Commission III of the DPR RI NasDem Faction, Ahmad Sahroni, through his personal Instagram account.

"My friend Arteria Dahlan @arteriadahlan just happened at the airport as seen in the video. And the woman was cursing at my best friend's parents, what do you think? Is it appropriate for the woman in the video to do that to our mother?" Sahroni said in his upload.

Sahroni explained that the woman who cursed Arteria Dahlan's mother was wearing a green TNI official car. Sahroni also asked the TNI to find out the identity of the woman.

"@puspentni, please look for the official car, so that our mother can teach this woman a polite lesson," he continued.

Citing a VOI article entitled DPR Member Arteria Dahlan's Mother Was Cursed At Soekarno-Hatta Airport By A Woman Claiming To Be The Daughter Of A Three-star General And The Head Of The Party, Arteria Dahlan admitted that he did not want to escalate this issue. He has reported the woman to the authorities and further proceedings are being carried out.

"It's been processed at the Airport Police, let's just take the legal route," explained Arteria Dahlan when confirmed.

"I don't want to make a fuss in public because it involves the names of three-star generals, party leaders," he explained.

Controversy and conversation about Arteria Dahlan

Arteria Dahlan has recently been mentioned by name. Previously, he made a scene by asking the police, prosecutors, and judges not to be the object of a red-handed operation (OTT).

Arteria said that there are actually many ways to take legal action against corrupt behavior other than OTT. Moreover, this kind of operation raises accusations of criminalization and politicization.

"Even though we have great resources for the police, prosecutors, judges, law enforcers. Really, the capital is only OTT, not by building legal construction that is more usable, challenged by all parties, so that fairness is more visible", said Arteria.

Arteria Dahlan was also in the spotlight in 2019 after having an emotional debate with Professor of the University of Indonesia, Emil Salim, about the Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on the KPK Law. At that time the debate took place at the Mata Najwa event on October 9, 2019.

While arguing, Arteria looked emotional by speaking in a high tone while several times pointing at Emil Salim's face. In the debate, Arteria Dahlan even called Emil Salim's thoughts heretical.

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"It's not, Prof. Are you lost, Prof?" said Arteria Dahlan, pointing to Emil Salim, who was the Minister of the Environment under President Soeharto.

Arteria's attitude, which was considered impolite and continued to interrupt Emil Salim's conversation, made netizens pranked him. They changed Arteria Dahlan's profile on Wikipedia by adding the word 'bacot' (big mouth, ed)

Negative news about Arteria Dahlan also appeared in March 2018. During the Commission III meeting, Arteria said that a year ago, Arteria's name was also discussed, when at the Commission III meeting, March 28, 2018, Arteria cursed the Ministry of Religion by issuing the word 'bangsat' (asshole, ed). Arteria's attitude made a commotion, leading to criticism from a number of employees of the Ministry of Religion.

Citing CNN, Commission III at that time discussed the issue of fake Umrah. Arteria advised the public prosecutor to not only inventory fraudulent Umrah travelers, but to take action. Arteria looked annoyed at the Ministry of Religion.

"This Ministry of Religion is asshole, sir, all of them, sir!" said Arteria.

However, Arteria realized that his attitude was not right. The day after, Arteria apologized and admitted to using harsh words because he was angry with individuals in the Ministry of Religion.

Withdrew in 2017, Arteria was also in the spotlight during a working meeting of Commission III and the KPK leadership. At that time, Arteria protested against the KPK leadership after being given the opportunity to speak. He protested because the KPK leadership did not call the DPR members 'Dear ones.'

"I'm sorry, I don't feel there is an atmosphere of nationality here. Since then, I haven't heard the five KPK leaders call members of the DPR as 'Dear ones'," said Arteria.

Profile of Arteria Dahlan

Quoting dpr.go.id, Arteria Dahlan was born in Jakarta on July 7, 1975. He is a graduate of S-1 Electrical Engineering from Trisakti University and S-1 Specialization Program in Economic Law, University of Indonesia. Arteria also received a master's degree in constitutional law at the University of Indonesia.

Before entering politics, Arteria Dahlan started his career as a lawyer. In 2000, Arteria worked at the Hutabarat Law Office, Halim & Partners. Then Arteria became a partner at the Bastaman & Co Law Office from 2005 to 2009.

For his organizational career, Arteria is said to have served on the advisory board of the scientific study institute of the Faculty of Law of Indonesia in 1999-2015. He was also the Deputy Secretary-General of the Indonesian Bar Association in 2005-2015.

Arteria has also been on the Board of Trustees in the organization he created, the Arteria Dahlan Foundation. Arteria occupied the DPR seat in 2014-2019. He was again a member of the DPR for the 2019-2024 period.

As for the party that houses him, PDI-P, from 2010 to 2015, Arteria Dahlan served as Head of the Central Legal Aid and Advocacy Agency. He then served as Deputy for Legal Affairs at the Central Research and Development Agency of the PDI-P DPP since 2017. Arteria has also served as a Member of Political and Security Affairs of the PDI-P DPP since 2017.

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