South Sulawesi Students Suspected Of Joining Heretical Schools Promised Motorcycles To Recruit 10 People

MAKASSAR - A field experience practice (PPL) student who was suspected of being guided to participate in a deviant sect in Palopo City, South Sulawesi, was promised a motorbike. This promise was made if the student succeeded in recruiting followers up to 10 people.

"From the information from one of the SMP 8 teachers, he was promised a motorbike, if successful he could bring 10 of his friends," said Head of the Palopo Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) Office, Rusydi Hasyim, contacted by VOI, Thursday, November 19.

Rusydi said that his party and the police and the prosecutor's office had held a joint meeting. During the meeting, the handling of this case was delegated to the Monitoring of Community Beliefs and Religious Sects (PAKEM).

"This is the perpetrator, we will have the process, meanwhile the one who wants to call him, the Pakem party, has the right to call. We are only facilitating, so the decision will be made in Pakem," he said.

Rusydi confirmed that his party intervened in handling the circulation of videos of female students allegedly being guided to follow deviant sects.

"So we Palopo Ministry of Religion has summoned, wrote letters to friends from MUI, Kesbangpol, from the Police, IAIN campus, SMP 8, Palopo Education Office, all of which we call for a meeting, to discuss clarification of this information," said Rusydi. previous.

The Palopo Ministry of Religion has also met with female students who are suspected of being guided to follow deviant sects. This student provides information related to the chronology of events.

"Our student asks for information, and she is accompanied by a supervisor because this is a PPL (Field Experience Practice) student who was assigned by her institution to hold PPL at SMP 8," continued Rusydi.

From the results of the meeting, his party then wrote to the prosecutor regarding the Monitoring of Community Beliefs (Pakem) to follow up on this incident.

"This afternoon I seem to have signed the letter, so that this is followed up because he (the Attorney) is in charge," said Rusydi.

According to Rusydi, this student was initially doing Field Experience Practices (PPL) at a junior high school in Palopo. There, this student met a teacher.

"These PPL children were invited to get along with the teacher who was appointed by SMP 8 to guide. This child who was PPL, was invited to the teacher's house, to stay in touch, but until there he was prospected," Rusydi continued.