Polda Metro Denies Sending Calls To Examine Whistleblowers In The Arteria Dahlan Case

Illustrations (DOK VOI)

JAKARTA - The Polda Metro Jaya has denied that there is an examination agenda for the complainant of the alleged SARA case involving Arteria Dahlan. In fact, the investigative team never sent a summons for an examination.

"The Sub-Directorate of Cyber Dirkrimsus has never given invitations or summons, clarifications to them (reporters, ed) for today," said Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes E. Zulpan to reporters, Friday, February 4.

In fact, Zulpan stated that he did not know the reason why the complainants said an examination had been scheduled for today. However, in the end they asked for the examination agenda to be postponed.

"(Whistleblower, ed) cannot attend, indeed, we also did not schedule or invite them to attend today," said Zulpan.

Previously, it was reported that the Polda Metro Jaya had started investigating the alleged racial intolerance case involving Member of Commission III of the DPR RI, Arteria Dahlan. This is because the complainant of the case will be questioned today.

"God willing, we will attend. The agenda is to examine the complainant and the reporting witness," said one of the reporting representatives, Urip Hariyanto.

In the later investigation, said Urip, who also serves as the Presidium of the Axis of the Archipelago, several other parties were also summoned to provide information. They are representatives of the Sundanese Customary Council, the LPPAM NGO, the Indonesian Fisherman Farmers Communication Forum.

However, not long after, Urip declared that he had canceled the examination. The reason was that two of them could not fulfill the summons to be examined as witnesses. For this reason, they asked for the examination to be postponed.

"(We ask for the examination, red) It will be postponed for the near future. This is because two people from the reporting party or the reporting witness are unable to attend," said Urip.

The two witnesses could not attend the examination because they were busy with other things. Where, one of them must accompany his wife who will undergo surgery.

"The reporter, his child gave birth. Then, one witness to the reporter, his wife underwent surgery at the hospital," said Urip.