Minister Of Health Asks Police To Completely Investigate Doctor Aulia's Bullying: Let It Be Punished Immediately

DENPASAR - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin continues to push for legal proceedings in cases of alleged bullying and extortion at Diponegoro University (Undip), Semarang, which led to the suicide of a student of the Specialist Doctors Education Program (PPDS).

"Because it's already in, I just want to give it to the police. Let them be punished immediately so that everything is clear, the people also know and have a deterrent effect," said Budi, Monday, September 2.

He said the legal process against the perpetrators suspected of being the culprit of the bullying incident in the campus environment of Diponegoro University Semarang and the suicide tragedy of the prospective specialist doctor was aimed at providing legal certainty to the victims.

In addition, the legal process is carried out so that all parties do not consider bullying to be a natural thing to educate potential strong doctors.

Budi denied the assumption that potential tough specialist doctors were produced in inhumane ways, such as sexual harassment to extortion.

He considered that legal steps were taken to open the case clearly and was not considered normal by the perpetrators.

"If you don't give sanctions like this, you will continue to think this is a normal thing, because it has been done for a long time," he said.

The Minister of Health warned that similar actions on campuses should be stopped, because these actions are unusual to the point of considering the education process.

He also asked the campus to fix the existing system so as not to take lives again.

"I emphasize caution, especially since someone has died. This is very unusual. Whatever happens if someone dies because the system is wrong, we have to admit it is wrong, immediately fix it, not let this last for decades," he said.

The Minister of Health emphasized that it is time for practices like this to no longer exist in the world of education, let alone specialist medical education.

Previously, a student of the Specialist Doctors Education Program (PPDS) of the Faculty of Medicine, Undip Semarang, Aulia Risma Lestari, died allegedly of suicide at her boarding house on Lempongsari Street, Semarang City, Central Java.

The death of the victim who was found on Monday (12/8) is suspected to be related to bullying where he studied.

Doctor Aulia Risma Lestari died in her boarding room allegedly for injecting excessive drugs into her body.