Police Arrest Perpetrators Of Obscenity 2 Santriwati Age 7-10 Years At Ponpes Kota Batu

Batu Police Chief AKBP Andi Yudha Pranata/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Batu Resort Police (Polres), East Java revealed a case of alleged sexual abuse of two underage female students, which occurred in one of the Islamic boarding schools in the area.

Batu Police Chief AKBP Andi Yudha Pranata said the perpetrators of the sexual abuse of the two female students had the initials AMH (69), from Lamongan Regency, East Java.

"The incident (alleged sexual abuse) occurred in September 2024, the crime scene (TKP) around the environment of one of the cottages in Punten Village, Bumiaji District, Batu City," Andi said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, May 22.

The obscenity case that befell the two female students occurred in September 2024, where the victims were then 7 years and 10 years old.

"The age of a 10-year-old victim from Jember and his 7-year-old student from Probolinggo," he said.

Andi stated that AMH was not a management or teaching staff but was still a relative of the owner of the Islamic boarding school.

"His house (the perpetrator) is in Punten Village, AMH is not part of the educators, owners, or administrators of the cottage but he is really a guest," he said.

The sexual abuse was exposed after the victims reported AMH's actions to his parents.

"The method is to clean up after the victim urinates or istinjawa even though the person concerned has no rights and ethically it is inappropriate to do that," he said.

After that, the victim's parents immediately reported AMH's actions to the Batu Police, in January 2025. From that process, the police officers also asked for information from the two female students.

"The conclusion is that the victim's statement is consistent and can be accounted for as a key witness statement. We have asked for six witnesses," he said.

Andi stated that the disclosure of the case was quite long because the officers still had to first complete the evidence in the form of two Kalivisum et repertum results.

"We are waiting for the results of the post-mortem to strengthen the information, especially the information from the child. We need to validate and depend on the results of the post-mortem, it affects the steps and results of the next investigation," he said.

The police charged the elderly with Article 82 in conjunction with Article 76 letter E of Law 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning Child Protection.

"The person concerned has the potential to be sentenced to a minimum imprisonment of five years and a maximum of 15 years," he said.