Kades Cinta Mulya Majalengka Becomes A Drug Suspect, Will Be Rehabilitated Not Imprisoned

The Sumedang Resort Police (Polres), West Java, named the Head of Cinta Mulya Village, Jatinangor District, named Sarip Wahyudi (43) as a suspect for drug users after the case went viral on social media.

Sumedang Police Chief AKBP Sandityo Mahardika said the determination of the suspect was based on the results of laboratory tests which stated that he was positive for using methamphetamine.

"Then the Narcotics Unit conducted an interrogation and the suspect admitted his actions. Then a urine test was carried out which stated that the suspect was positive for methamphetamine," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, December 12.

Earlier on Wednesday, the police received a report from social media regarding a drug abuse case by a village head so that his party immediately secured Sarip Wahyudi at the Cinta Mulya Village Office on the same day.

The police then conducted an examination until it was discovered that the village head had known methamphetamine narcotics since 2012 and has been active as a user in recent years.

The suspect admitted that he obtained the narcotics for free from a person with the initials F who is currently in the process of being investigated.

"After further confirmation, the suspect is known to have been taking drugs since 2012 and he admitted to getting goods from brother F," he explained.

The village head was named a suspect based on Article 127 Paragraph (1) Letter a Law no. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.

However, the police apply restorative justice to the person concerned so that the legal process is not in the form of imprisonment, but rehabilitation.

The basis for implementing the policy refers to Perpol No. 8 of 2021 concerning Handling Criminal Acts Based on Restorative Justice, Joint Regulation on March 11, 2014 concerning the handling of addicts and victims of abuse to rehabilitation institutions, as well as the West Java Police Narcotics Directorate Regulation No. 1 of 2017 concerning the handling of addicts and victims of abuse at the level of investigation.

The results of further assessment stated that the suspect was categorized as a serious addictive so he was required to undergo six months of hospitalization at the Sukabumi drug rehabilitation site.