4 Women In NTB Arrested After Throwing The Tobacco Factory, 2 Of Them Bringing A Toddler

A number of lawyers who are members of "Turning Justice for the IRT" (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - As many as 50 advocates who are members of 'Turn on Justice for IRT (housewife)' are ready to provide legal assistance to 4 housewives who were detained with their toddlers at Praya Detention Center, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).

Four housewives with the initials HT (40), NR (38), MR (22), and FT (38) are residents of Wajegeseng Village, Koppang District, Central Lombok. The four of them are suspected of destroying the roof of the tobacco factory building, UD Mawar, Wajageseng Village, Central Lombok Regency, NTB in December 2020.

The file of the case has entered court and will be tried at the Praya District Court, Central Lombok Regency at the end of February 2021.

Coordinator of the Justice Team for IRT Ali Usman Ahim said that as a first step his party had started investigating, gathering information needed to find out the chronology of the incident.

The team also visited four IRTs at Praya Detention Center. His party has also met with the family and conducted the crime scene (TKP).

"We are planning to submit a pretrial application related to the case. The legal counsel from the families of the IRTs related to the plan is currently being processed", said Ali Usman, quoted by Antara, Mataram, Saturday, February 20.

He added that his party was moved to help because it was encouraged by a moral and humanitarian movement. According to him, this case is strange and should not be brought into the realm of law.

There are restorative justice steps that can be taken to resolve this issue.

Based on the results of the investigation, said Ikhsan Ramdhani who is also a member of the legal team, the four IRTs were detained because they were accused of committing vandalism by throwing stones at the warehouse of the tobacco factory, UD Mawar Putra.

Two of the IRTs, said the Head of the NTB Formapi, have children aged around 1 year and 1.5 years. Both were forced to join the mother in the cell because they had to be given milk.

After his party carried out the TKP processing, there was no damage caused by the actions of the four IRTs.

"I do not understand what was the basis for the objective judgment of the prosecutor to detain them. Why is it that the investigator is forcing the case to be processed?", he said.

Head of General Crimes Section of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Praya Abdul Haris, said that the formal file for the second phase of the tobacco warehouse destruction case had been fulfilled so that the suspects were detained.

"When we received Phase II 3 days ago, only four suspects were entrusted to the Central Praya Police, because no one guaranteed or submitted a letter of suspension", he said in his office, Friday, February 19 yesterday.