BKBH Unram NTB Provides Legal Assistance For Student Demonstrators To Become Victims Of Persecution Of Security Guards And Campus Officers

The action of security guards and Unram employees to secure student demonstrators in front of the Unram Rectorate Building, NTB, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. (ANTARA-Tangkap layar)

Student demonstrators became victims of the persecution of security guards and employees of Mataram University (Unram), West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Unram claimed to be ready to provide legal assistance to victims.

"If students give power of attorney, we are ready to assist," said Unram Director of the Legal Consultation and Assistance Bureau (BKBH), Joko Jumadi in Mataram, NTB, Thursday, June 22, as reported by Antara.

Joko emphasized that Unram rejected all forms of violence. This is also Joko's commitment as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law Unram with fellow advocates to establish BKBH Unram.

"In principle, we reject all forms of violence. If there are victims of violence who ask for protection or assistance at the BKBH, we will assist them," he said.

The same thing was conveyed by the General Chairperson of the NTB Mangandar Legal Aid Center (PBHM) Yan Mangandar who also witnessed the student's follow-up action at the Unram Rectorate Building, Thursday, June 22.

"Earlier, my attention was also the presence of several people who were not in security uniforms, who helped secure the demonstrators, what is this? Unram should have learned from the dark case of the IKIP Campus which killed a student with the perpetrators not from security guards, but people outside the campus," said Yan.

Furthermore, Unram's alumnus, who is now an advocate, also paid attention to the case of demonstrators abuse in the first action, Tuesday, June 20.

"I pay attention to the movement of younger students. As alumni and public lawyers of PBHM NTB, we are sad to see the restraint of freedom of opinion getting worse, especially at Unram," he said.

Previously, the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit (Satreskrim) of the Mataram Police, Kompol I Made Yogi Purusa Utama, said that his party was currently investigating a case of alleged abuse of demonstrators in Unram.

He said that his party conducted an investigation based on reports of complaints from Unram students who were victims of persecution.

"Based on the complaint report we received last Tuesday (June 20), we conducted an investigation," said Yogi.

As a follow-up to the handling, he said that his party had begun to schedule an examination of a number of parties involved in the alleged abuse.

Because it relates to the alleged criminal offense of Article 351 of the Criminal Code concerning persecution in the educational environment, Yogi said it was possible for his party to examine from the Unram bureaucracy.

"Anyway, everything related to the report, we will check," he said.

In addition to scheduling the examination, his party is now waiting for the results of the post-mortem of the victim from the Bhayangkara Mataram Hospital.

The post-mortem on the injuries claimed by the victim as a result of the act of persecution, said Yogi, was part of the completeness of the evidence for the alleged abuse.

The alleged abuse was experienced by student demonstration participants who were taking action in front of the Unram Rectorate Building, Tuesday, June 20.

The abuse was recorded in a video circulating on social media, including a 25-second video recording the actions of a number of security guards forcibly securing one of the demonstration participants.

When the officers dragged the student into the Unram Rectorate Building, it was seen that a man wearing a blue batik pattern secretly from behind hit him with a hard object that made the victim fall.

The students held a demonstration in front of the Unram Rectorate Building by bringing a number of demands, one of which questioned the reason why the campus set the registration fee for new students for the independent route of Rp. 500 thousand.