Kendari Satpol PP Personnel Hit Krupuk Trade Sellers On The Streets With Suspension

Acting Head of Kendari City Satpol PP Muhammad Ewa (left). (ANTARA/La Ode Muh Deden Saputra)

JAKARTA - The Kendari City Government (Pemkot) has imposed sanctions in the form of suspension of one Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) personnel who beat a young man selling crackers in Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi Province (Sultra).

Acting (Plt) Head of Kendari City Satpol PP Muhammad Ewa said the personnel who were given the suspension had the initials H who hit a young gang seller who sold his merchandise on the streets.

"We have closed it, the sanction is a strong warning in the form of not entering the office for three days which will be given to members," said Ewa when met in Kendari, Friday, February 7, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said that while other Satpol PP personnel who also ganged up on the cracker seller were not given sanctions. This is because Muhammad Ewa argued that the personnel only intervened between the two parties who had dueled.

"So, the person involved actually wanted to intervene, because he felt sorry for his friend," he said.

Ewa appealed to all personnel in charge of maintaining public order and security to convey a good warning.

"Every of these friends who go out on patrol, we convey to the community in a polite manner, for example there are sellers who violate public order and peace," said Ewa.

As previously reported, the beatings carried out by several Kendari City Satpol PP personnel that went viral began because traders who had often been banned from selling on the streets.

"Because their existence often disturbs road users. They have even been taken to the office and made statements not to sell again, but the statement was ignored," said Ewa.

He explained that the incident that occurred on Wednesday afternoon began when members of the Kendari City Satpol PP took to the streets to convey that they should not sell on the streets.

However, said Ewa, after Satpol PP personnel left the place, they came back to sell on the streets, even a young cracker seller invited Satpol PP personnel to fight.

"And it was broken down, it turned out that he (the young man selling crackers) was the first to beat him as seen in the video," he said.