KPAI Says 13 Children Involved In August Demonstration Are Still In The Legal Process

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), Margaret Aliyatul Maimunah said as many as 13 out of 2,093 children involved in the demonstration led to riots at the end of last August, currently still in legal proceedings.

This was conveyed by Margaret when explaining the results of the work of the Independent Team for Finding Facts about LN HAM in a hearing (RDP) with Commission XIII of the DPR together with human rights institutions, at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, September 29.

"We found that 2,093 children were involved and involved in yesterday's anarchist action. With the pattern of involvement of friends invitations in the name of solidarity, invitations from seniors or seniors, invitations from alumni, there were also provocations of invitations on social media, and allegations of mobilization," said Margaret.

Margaret explained that as many as 203 children had filed complaints about this. Then, according to other findings, there were children being treated and children dying allegedly experienced violence during the action.

"The findings found that a child was being treated was suspected of being abused during the action, then, one child died who was suspected of being abused during the action, namely ALF (16) Tangerang," he explained.

"There are several children who are still in the BAP, because they were caught carrying Molotov cocktails, burning, participating in looting, and carrying sharp weapons," continued Margaret.

Margaret said that based on data from Bareskrim Polri, as many as 290 children were invited to be involved in anarchist acts, they were spread across 11 regional police stations.

"In the Bali Regional Police, there are 4 children, the DIY Regional Police have 1 child, the West Java Regional Police have 31 children, the Central Java Regional Police 56 children, the East Java Regional Police 140 children, one of them is women, the West Kalimantan Regional Police have 3 children, the Lampung Regional Police have 7 children, in PMJ 32 children, NTB 6 children, South Sulawesi 12 children, and South Sumatra 3 children," he said.

Of the 295 children, 214 children have been returned to their parents and under the supervision of their father. Meanwhile, 68 other children have been transferred or resolved problems outside the court.

"Earlier from 295, 214 have been released, 68 have been converted, the rest (13) are still in process," said Margaret.

"The rest is under surveillance so that we hope that these children will also get a diversion," he added.

Margaret explained that her party would conduct an in-depth investigation regarding the findings tomorrow. In particular, it will coordinate regarding children who are still in 11 regional police stations.

"Then of course, later we will conduct an analysis together with other human rights LN teams, then write a report and finalize it," he said.

"(KPAI) is just about to do an in-depth confirmation for tomorrow. There is our commissioner who will go to East Java and go to Kediri together to Cirebon," concluded Margaret.