Withdraw Report, Gofar Hilman And Syerin Agree Peace

JAKARTA - The case of alleged sexual harassment by radio announcer Gofar Hilman against a woman named Hafsyarina Sufa Rebowo, or who is also known as Syerin, ended in peace.

The Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Pol Endra Zulpan said the reporting party or Hafsyarina had submitted an apology to the reporting party, or Gofar Hilman in the mediation.

The reported party, said Zulpan, was also willing to make an apology video which was uploaded on social media.

The reporter (Gofar Hilman) forgave the reported party (Syerin) for the alleged criminal act of defamation and agreed to make peace with the reported party," said Kombes Zulpan to reporters, Sunday, February 13.

The complainant will not continue the case and is willing to withdraw the police report. In stopping the case report, he continued, the Polda Metro Jaya used a mediation approach to resolve the issue.

"Here, the participants in the mediation are the investigator, the reporter and the reported party," he said.

Meanwhile, LBH of the Indonesian Women's Association for Justice (APIK) Jakarta and SAFEnet who accompanied Syerin in the alleged sexual harassment case by Gofar Hilman said that they were not involved in the mediation.

In addition, Syerin also submitted a request for the revocation of the power of attorney on the same day or February 10, 2022.

"Once again, we convey that this happened on the same day as the request for revocation of the power of attorney," said LBH APIK in a statement uploaded to the LBH APIK Instagram account, Saturday, February 12.

As is known, Hafsyarina or Syerin accused Gofar Hilman of sexually harassing him since August 19, 2018. Syerin revealed through a series of tweets on his Twitter account, on July 8, 2021.

Against this accusation, Gofar Hilman accused Syerin of libeling through electronic media, as referred to in Article 27 Paragraph 3 Juncto Article 45 Paragraph 3 and/or Article 310 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 311 of the Criminal Code.

As further information, Syerin admitted that her accusations against Gofar Hilman were not true. Through a video, Syerin, who was accompanied by his parents, apologized to Gofar Hilman for the accusations that he said were motivated by delusions and imaginative things on Friday, February 11, night.

"I, Hafsyarina Sufa Rebowo or Syerin, who have the Twitter account @quweenjojo I want to clarify the tweet I made on June 8, 2021, which accused Mr. Gofar Hilman of being the perpetrator of sexual harassment. I want to clarify that this is not true," he tweeted as if quoted, Friday 11 February.