Dedi Mulyadi To West Java Police Promise To Release Detained Students

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi admitted that he would visit the West Java Regional Police along with the leadership of the West Java DPRD and promised to release a number of students who were detained as a result of the demonstration that led to chaos some time ago.

Those who will be asked to be released, said Dedi, are those who do not have a criminal element but are caught by the police such as being linked to drugs and possession of firearms.

"Today, I and the leadership of the DPRD will immediately go to the Regional Police to ask younger students who do not have criminal elements, such as drugs, carry firearms to be released," said Dedi after an audience with hundreds of students in the field and the Sate Bandung building hall, Wednesday, September 3.

However, Dedi said that if it was found that there was a criminal element in the students who were arrested, Dedi invited law enforcement officials to process it in accordance with the applicable criminal law.

"Anyone who meets the requirements of the criminal element is welcome to continue with a criminal law. But those who do not fulfill the elements must not be forced," he said.

The release step, said Dedi, was a follow-up to his hearing with hundreds of student representatives from the Student Executive Board of various campuses in West Java this Wednesday at Gedung Sate.

In addition to requesting the release of students detained at the West Java Regional Police, Dedi said his visit to the West Java Police Headquarters was also to request the release of students and school children at the Resort Police and Polsek under their coordination, even those under Polda Metro Jaya to be released.

"So we are optimizing our follow-up. This release, including not only those in the West Java Regional Police, but also in all metro police and police in all provinces of West Java, I ask students who are being detained to be released immediately," he said.

West Java Police Chief Inspector General Rudi Setiawan said he would welcome and open up space if Dedi planned to come to the West Java Regional Police.

"It's just impossible, go ahead, we have an open space, our investigation is open," he said.

Regarding those detained themselves, Rudi said they were in the process of being investigated.

Demonstrations in several regions in Indonesia in the last few days have ended in chaos.

In Bandung due to the demonstration on August 29-30, 2025, at least buildings consisting of assets of the MPR RI on Jalan Diponegoro, a Sambara restaurant, a resident's house on Jalan Gempol, and two bank offices on Jalan Ir H Djuanda, West Java DPRD Building, 10 motorbikes, other food stalls, and infrastructure under the Pasupati Bridge were damaged.