Police Handled, Middle School Student Bullying Case In Cilacap Because Victim Claims To Be A Member Of The 'Basis' Gang

Screenshot of the video of bullying case in one of the country's first high schools in Cimanggu District, Cilacap Regency. ANTARA/Sumarwoto

CILACAP - The Criminal Investigation Unit (Satreskrim) of the Cilacap City Police (Polresta) handled a bullying case that befell a student at one of the first high schools in Cimanggu, Cilacap Regency, Central Java. Head of Cilacap Police, Kombes Fannky Ani Sugiharto, admitted that the video of the bullying by two junior high school students against one of his colleagues had gone viral on social media. "However, we have secured the two suspected perpetrators before the video of the bullying went viral in the media," he explained accompanied by the Head of the Satreskrim Police Commissioner Guntar Arif Setiyoko in Cilacap, Antara, Wednesday, September 27. This, he continued, was after his party received information from the Head of Negarajati Village and Pesahangan regarding the bullying at a junior high school in Cimanggu District that occurred on Tuesday. In this case, his party has examined two students on suspicion of being the perpetrators and three other students as witnesses. "We arrested two suspected perpetrators and three witnesses two hours after receiving information from the Head of State of State, Kajati and Pesahangan," he said. He further said that his party also made preventive and preventive efforts by appealing and penetrating the field to the local community so that they could refrain from judging the perpetrators and fully leaving it to the police. "This morning, the Cilacap Police invited both from the school, forkopimda, and village officials to convey several results of examinations and appeals related to the conducive stability of security and social security and moral education in the school environment," said the Chief of Police. Regarding the cause of the bullying, Kasatreskrim Polresta Cilacap Kompol Guntar Arif Setiyoko said this was triggered by a statement by the victim with the initials RF (14) who offended the two alleged perpetrators. "The victim admitted that he was a member of the Basis group or gang. The perpetrators with the initials MK (15) and WS (14) who were members of the group did not accept and were offended so that they finally bullied the victim," he explained.

According to him, his party is still coordinating with related parties in the context of handling the bullying case.