Explosion At The Parepare Prosecutor's Office, Planted Detonator Barbuk Or Terror?

Explosion illustration (Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Tuesday afternoon, November 19, in the Parepare area, South Sulawesi, it felt so calm like the previous days. However, that condition immediately changed when there was a sound of an explosion.

The ground shook and some windows of the Parepare District Attorney's Office (Kejari) were broken. All employees panicked and then scattered out of the building. The explosion was said to have occurred in the backyard.

The source of the explosion is not yet known. Although, many thought that the sound of the thud came from a bomb. Given that recently there had been a suicide bombing at the Medan Police.

"It is true that there was an explosion, we cannot predict where the explosion came from. It occurred at around 14:45 WITA," said Head of Public Relations of the Indonesian Police, Inspector General of Police Muhammad Iqbal in Jakarta, Tuesday, November 19.

To find out the source of the explosion, the local police and the bomb disposal team (Jibom) were dispatched. Managing the crime scene and looking for clues to the explosion was carried out.

"Lapolres Parepare and Jibom are conducting crime scenes in anticipation of further explosions," he said

In addition, from the temporary records there were no casualties or injuries caused by the explosion. "Meanwhile, there are no victims yet," he said briefly.

Separately, Head of Intelligence Section of the Kejari Parepare Amirudin said the source of the explosion came from an active detonator which was the remains of evidence. Previously, that trigger device had been destroyed for some time.

In the destruction of the detonator, heaped up with soil and then poured with cement. Thus, there is a strong suspicion that the explosion came from the remaining evidence because the location of the explosion was the site for the destruction of the confiscated goods.

"What exploded was a detonator who was still active. It is suspected that this is because the location where the incident occurred was where we destroyed the detonator's evidence last September," said Amiruddin.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Mukri, suspected that the explosion was triggered by the burning of garbage around the location. Thus, the fire triggered an explosion at the detonator that had been buried in the ground.

"So there was a cleaning service worker who burned trash in the Kejari Parepare trash, then the trash bin happened to be the site for the destruction of the fish bomb barbuk (evidence). So when he burned the trash, apparently it hit him," said Mukri.