MA Reduces Bawas to Investigate Judges related to the Daycare Case in Yogyakarta

Spokesperson for the Supreme Court (MA) of the Republic of Indonesia Heru Pramono (far right) accompanied by Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Suharto and spokesperson Sobandi / ANTARA/ Laily Rahmawaty

JAKARTA - The Supreme Court has reduced a team and a Supervisory Agency to examine the relationship between judges in the case of the Yogyakarta daycare foundation or daycare, which was accused of child abuse and neglect.

Spokesperson for the Supreme Court (MA) Heru Pramono said his agency had followed up on the information by conducting an inspection.

"The Supreme Court responded by sending a team with Bawas, hopefully after (the investigation), whether it is true that he (the judge) only lent the ID card or has a stake," said Heru as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 29.

According to Heru, from the results of the confirmation made by the Tais District Court, Bengkulu, the judge was not in the ranks of the administrators of Daycare Little Aresha and did not have shares.

He said the active judge had lent his KTP to a friend to build a house in Yogyakarta.

"It turns out that when we confirmed it, it turned out that only his KTP was borrowed from a friend. And at that time he was not a judge, he was still studying in Yogyakarta," he said.

Heru said the PN Tais judge lent his KTP on the basis of kindness with a friend who came to ask for help.

"There was a friend who asked for help to make a foundation, then because he was sorry for his friend, he was given without thinking. If you are a judge, it is probably impossible to give it (borrow KTP). And if he imagines that he will become a judge, maybe he will not be given," said Heru.

Because at the time the KTP was loaned by the judge, he had not yet taken office, never checked or controlled and asked about the daycare that was established.

"He also has no shares there, he can't make a profit there. Suddenly there is a problem," he said.

According to Heru, the active judge is a young judge who has achieved success, so the incident has dragged his name.

"As far as we understand, this child is actually a smart and accomplished child, a young and accomplished judge. It's also sad, you know, this problem arises," said Heru.

Previously, the spokesperson for the Tais Rohmat District Court had clarified the inclusion of a judge's name in the structure of the Little Aresha Yogyakarta daycare foundation.

In his clarification, it was conveyed that his name could be included in the organization of the childcare institution starting in 2021, when two people named Nga Liem and Diah asked for help when establishing a childcare business that was already running but not yet in the form of a legal entity.

It was also explained that the judge had provided assistance in the form of personal identity documents but had asked that his name be removed from the third foundation's structure, which had already taken the form of a legal band because he was undergoing the CPNS test stage.

During the day care's existence, the judge never received any remuneration or participated in any capital, operational, and decision-making related to the foundation.

In fact, the judge also never knew and was informed of the establishment of the notary deed of the foundation, nor did he ever give anyone authority over the legal action of establishing the foundation.

In his clarification, the judge admitted his negligence in 2021 by lending his personal identity documents. And apologized to the victims, the victims' families, and the Constitutional Court.

Separately, the Yogyakarta Police have named 13 suspects in the case of violence and child neglect at the Little Aresha Daycare.

Two of the 13 suspects in the case of violence and neglect at the childcare center are DK (51) as the chairman of the foundation, and AP (42) as the head of the school.

Meanwhile, the other eleven people who are daycare caregivers. Each of them is initialed FN (30), NF (26), Lis (34), EN (26), SRM (54), DR (32), HP (47), ZA (30), SRJ (50), DO (31), DM (28).