Police Investigation On The Cloth Jarik Fetish Case

Screenshot of threat about Jarik's cloth Fetish (Twitter)

JAKARTA - The police have not yet determined the criminal offense of a student who has a cloth fetish. However, there is a strong suspicion that there is an element of sexual harassment behind the problem.

"Waiting for evidence from the investigation (to determine the violation)," said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police, Kombes Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko, to VOI, Saturday, August 1.

The stipulation of a new criminal article will be determined when the investigator has found evidence. Then, strengthened by the title of the case. Meanwhile, the investigation process is currently still in the stage of tracing the twitter account that uploaded the fetish story.

"Any suspicion of a criminal act must begin with an investigation and be based on at least 2 pieces of evidence," said Trunoyudo.

This problem started when the Twitter account @m_fikris uploaded the story of Fetish Kain Jarik under the guise of academic research from PTN students in Surabaya.

In the upload, it was told that a young man named Gilang asked the target people to take a picture of themselves wrapped in a cloth. This was done to fulfill his sexual desire.

Later, it was discovered that Gilang was a student of the Airlangga University (Unair) Surabaya. The Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga admitted that they had contacted Gilang for clarification, but it did not work.

Predator "Jarik Cloth Fetish" under the guise of academic research from PTN Students on SBYA Thread pic.twitter.com/PT4G3vpV9J

- mufis (@m_fikris) July 29, 2020

Fetish Label

Reflecting on the Gilang case which has recently been labeled a fetish by people in cyberspace, there are actually things that can be lessons. One of them is labeling or labeling.

Summarized from Antara, adult clinical psychologist, Nirmala Ika advises people not to label someone without a clinical examination from a competent expert.

"Do not give labeling when we do not really understand what happened, it is necessary to examine people who are competent with the problem so that they can be given the right treatment for that person," said Nirmala.

According to him, labeling someone without knowing their condition is the same as bullying that person. This can have an impact on the labeled person, including making him / her behave worse.

"It clearly has an impact on the person concerned and sometimes it often makes him 'worse' because he feels angry and not understood," he said.

From the victim's point of view, Nirmala assessed the importance of victims getting treatment from people who are competent in their fields, because this is not an easy experience for some people either.

"Don't give them a stigma either. Because we tend to like to give stigma to other people, for example rape victims and even COVID-19 patients, which, if you think about it, who wants to experience it all," said Nirmala.