JAKARTA - Police have managed to identify a teenage drug dealer in a group of rioters who acted in the Tamansari area, West Jakarta.
Tamansari Metro Police Chief Commissioner Bobby Mochammad Zulfikar said the teenager with the initials ZA (18) was caught in possession of two packages of 1.48 grams of crystal meth.
"From the perpetrator's confession, it will indeed be distributed to young people in the area," Bobby told reporters in Jakarta, Wednesday.
In ZA's plan, the methamphetamine would be broken into smaller packages to be distributed.
Bobby explained that the arrest of the brawl perpetrator began with a group of teenagers named Pemuda Patah Hati (PPH) who invited the brawl of the Thalib gang youth group through social media on March 26, 2026.
The two groups also agreed to fight using sharp weapons of various sizes.
"Then the group of perpetrators and their friends used about 10 motorcycles while carrying celurit," said Bobby.
The brawl broke out on March 27 last night at Jalan Keutamaan Dalam, Krukut Village, Tamansari District. The pin clash was inevitable until the incident was widely reported on social media.
Receiving this information, the Metro Tamansari Police Criminal Investigation Unit conducted an investigation based on reports from the public and social media videos. Officers arrested three teenagers involved in the brawl, namely ZA (18), MFEA (19), and RS (18).
From the results of the examination, the motive for the perpetrators to fight was to find their identity. The group of perpetrators often invites other groups to fight at certain locations.
"For other young people, yes, the existence of the language is seeking recognition. So if we see, we find out that it is from the neighboring area. Seeking existence and this has indeed happened repeatedly," said Bobby.
In the brawl, there were no casualties or injuries. However, Bobby said that this brawl case received special attention because the perpetrators were still teenagers and were also said to be using drugs.
In the clash that occurred, the rioters were said to have drunk alcohol (miras) with the aim of encouraging them to be more confident and courageous when acting.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Metro Tamansari Police Criminal Investigation Unit, AKP Egy Irwansyah, added that the three perpetrators had been named suspects.
His party is also still investigating the person who gave the drug type of methamphetamine to the perpetrator ZA.
"We comprehensively handle this problem, from juvenile delinquency, namely fights, to drugs and alcohol that can stimulate someone's adrenaline," he said.
In this case, the police confiscated evidence of a number of machetes, dozens of bottles of liquor (miras), to drugs of the type of methamphetamine from the hands of the perpetrators.
For their actions, the perpetrators are suspected of Article 307 Paragraph (1) of the RI Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code with a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.
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