Police Denies Motives For Children Killing Parents In Lebak Bulus Due To Education Pressure

JAKARTA - The police are still investigating the motive for the murder allegedly committed by MAS (14) against his biological father, APW (40) and his grandmother, RM (69) at the Taman Bona Housing, Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta, Saturday, November 30, then.

The Head of Public Relations of the South Jakarta Metro Police, AKP Nurma Dewi, denied that the motive for the murder by a young SMK in South Jakarta was due to pressure from parents' education on the alleged perpetrator.

He explained that MAS had admitted that he was asked to study by his parents. However, the request is not coercion, but the desire of parents in general so that the child becomes smart.

"He was told to study, but it's a normal thing for children who are in conflict with this law. So it has become a habit of their parents, they are told to study. He said 'this is not coercion'," Nurma told reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Tuesday, December 3.

Nurma also said that MAS followed his parents' request because he thought it was an obligation, for a student in general. So he did it with pleasure.

Indeed, he was told by his father and mother. But he did not feel pressured, because he said 'if I learn I am smart'. That's what the child said in conflict with the law. So even though he was told to study, he did it happily," he concluded.

Circulating the issue of MAS committing heinous acts against his parents because he was under pressure from his parents. Uploads from the @aci_islandi account on Instagram social media and X said the perpetrator was his son's friend when he was still in elementary school.

"The perpetrator was a friend during elementary school with my child, and I really feel sorry for the perpetrator who was depressed due to his parents' ambitions since childhood," he wrote, quoted on Sunday, December 1.

Written by Aci, the perpetrator in grade 4 often fell asleep in class. At that time, when the perpetrator was asked by his homeroom teacher, he replied that he had only slept at 1 a.m. because he had to study and do assignments from the tutoring center.

"Meanwhile, the pressure from his parents, the perpetrators must be smart children, must enter public schools such as the traces of his parents who graduated from State universities in Depok," he wrote.

Aci explained that his son was friends and had WhatsApp contacts with the perpetrators until now. Before the bloody incident occurred, the perpetrator was still uploading his status in WA.

"The perpetrator is still uploading the status in WA like this: I just got home, I've been told to study again, even though the exam is still on Tuesday," he wrote.