Named A Suspect Of Blasphemy Allegation, Komika AR Is Paid IDR 1 Million For Stand Up Commercial
Lampung Police have named comic AR (33) who appeared in the presidential candidate (candidate) campaign number 1 Anies Baswedan on Thursday, December 7, as a suspect in alleged blasphemy.
"Investigators from the General Criminal Investigation Directorate (Ditreskrimum) of the Lampung Police have named a comedian with the initials AR (33) as a suspect in the alleged blasphemy case," said Head of Public Relations of the Lampung Police, Kombes Pol Umi Fadilah Astutik, in Bandarlampung, Sunday.
He said that comic AR was suspected of having committed blasphemy through stand-up comedy material at the "Desak Anies Baswedan" some time ago in Bandarlampung City regarding Muhammad's name.
"From the results of the examination in question, the police presented seven witnesses and five experts and it was stated that the comic with the initials AR was suspected of having committed blasphemy," said Umi.
He said that currently the comic was being held at the Lampung Police Headquarters for further processing.
According to him, suspect AR will be subject to Article 156 letter a of the Criminal Code concerning blasphemy against the subsidiary of Article 156 of the Criminal Code regarding hate speech against a group.
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Umi revealed that based on the results of the investigation of the case reported by the three people, it began when suspect AR received an offer to fill the stand up comedy at the "Desak Anies Baswedan" event at Bento Cafe, Sukarame District.
"AR, who was contacted by Farhan at that time, was offered an honorarium of Rp. 1 million for his appearance at the event," he said.
At Anies Baswedan's Desak event in Bandarlampung, AR was a comeback booth to entertain the audience before the arrival of presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan.
In the event, one of the materials for the comic AR contained the phrase "Try to check in prison, how many names does Muhammad have, it's important that Muhammad's name is now. All of them have been imprisoned". Quoting the stand-up comedy material was recorded in the YouTube video of the "Desak Anies Baswedan" program, which lasted two hours and two minutes.