Alluding To Women In WhatsApp Group, 37-Year-Old Man Beaten By 2 Of His Close Friends

JAKARTA - A young man named Meilansyah (37) was battered after being beaten by two close friends. The victim, a resident of Cipulir Village, Kebayoran Lama District, South Jakarta, was persecuted after making a sentence of harassment in the WhatsApp (WAG) group containing the two perpetrators, the victim and several other women.

As a result of the beating, Meilansyah's victim suffered bruises on his left face, bruises on his eyelids and left legs suffered injuries. The beating was carried out by the suspect with the initials RA alias Yuda (28) and the initials D (DPO) in the Kota Tua area, Pintu Kecil Street, RW 02, Roa Malaka Village, Tambora District, West Jakarta.

Tambora Police Chief Kompol Putra Pratama revealed that the incident began with an argument in the WhatsApp group with the theme "Adding Brothers".

Then the victim sent a chat in the WA group which made the perpetrators offended. The victim wrote the words "All my used casters, all of them have expired".

From the confession of the victim Meilansyah, he only joked about writing the sentence in the WA group. However, the perpetrators did not accept the victim's words, even though the victim had apologized several times.

The words made in the form of sentences provoked the emotions of the perpetrators. Then the two perpetrators RA and D (DPO) looked for victims. After successfully meeting the victim, the two perpetrators immediately ganged up on the victim.

"Suspect RA beat the victim with his bare hands several times. Meanwhile, perpetrator D (DPO) also kicked with his foot towards the victim's left leg several times," said Kompol Putra Pratama when confirmed by VOI, Thursday, June 29, morning.

From his confession, the suspect RA reasoned that the victim's chat caption in the WA group was inappropriate. The reason, RA said, the sentence the victim intended was on a woman who was still the perpetrator.

"So the perpetrator RA approached and asked what his chat meant in the WhatsApp group. The perpetrator then took the victim to a quiet and dark place, then the perpetrator deliberately beat him several times with his bare hands on the victim's face," he said.

The two perpetrators ganged up on the victim. After the victim was in the position of falling, RA and D left the victim at the scene.

"Even though the two perpetrators and the victim know each other. They know each other because they often hang out together in the Kota Tua area, Taman Sari District, West Jakarta. Because they know each other, they make a group called 'Adding brothers'," he said.

From his identity, suspect RA is listed as a resident of Bumi Nambung District, Central Lampung Regency. Suspect RA works as a construction worker.

After the victim made a report to the Tambora Police, the perpetrator RA was finally arrested by the police in the rented house where he was hiding in the Cengkareng area.

"We are still hunting for the perpetrator with the initials D who is still at large. Suspect RA is charged with Article 170 of the Criminal Code with a penalty of five years and six months in prison," he said.