Arrest 4 More People, In Total There Are 7 Suspects Driving Riotous Students At The Demonstration Against The Job Creation Law

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JAKARTA - The joint team of the Directorate of General Crimes (Dittipidum), Bareskrim, Polri and Polda Metro Jaya, again arrested four suspects for spreading hate speech and incitement. They are the admin of the WhatsApp and Facebook short message application groups.

"3 suspects are admins of WAG STM throughout Jabodetabek and 1 suspect is admin from Facebook groups throughout Jabodetabek," said the Director of the Directorate of Criminal and Criminal Investigation of the National Police, Brigadier General Ferdy Sambo, to reporters, Tuesday, October 20.

They spread untrue video and photo content. Then invite all STM students to make a scene during the demonstration.

"The suspect made an invitation and incitement at the anarchist demonstration on Thursday, October 8 and Tuesday October 13 in Jakarta," said Ferdy.

But the chronology of their arrests is not yet known. The identities of all the suspects arrested have not been stated.

With the addition of these 4 people, a total of 7 people have been arrested for this case. Previously, the police had arrested 3 people for the same case.

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Yusri Yunus said the three youths arrested had the initials MLAI (16), WH (16), and SN (17).

MLAI and WH were secured by officers because they acted as administrators of the Facebook group "STM All Jabodetabek" which incited students to riot during a demonstration.

The STM Facebook group in Jabodetabek is known to have around 20,000 members.

Meanwhile, the third youth, with the initials SN, was secured to have the role of admin on the Instagram account @ Panjang. Age of resistance which contained incitement and provocative content for students to create riots.

"Indeed they have invited them to riot, he was a provocation, he appeared all the videos, all to take to the streets, all to do damage or riot," said Yusri.

As a result of their actions, the suspects were charged under Article 160 KUHP and / or Article 170 KUHP and or Article 214 KUHP and / or Article 211 KUHP and / or Article 212 KUHP and / or Article 216 KUHP and or Article 218 KUHP and / or Article 358 KUHP Jo Articles 55, 56 KUHP, Article 28 paragraph (2) in conjunction with article 45 of Law number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law number 11 of 2008 concerning information and electronic transactions (ITE).