Students In Kediri Died, Ministry Of Religion: Unlicensed Islamic Boarding School And Only 93 Students

Head of the Diniyah Education Division and the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion Islamic Boarding School of East Java Province, Mohammad As'adul Anam. (ANTARA)

KEDIRI - The Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) of East Java Province conducted an investigation into the Tartilul Quran (PPTQ) Tartilul Islamic Boarding School (Ponpes) Al Hanafiyyah. At this boarding school, Bintang Balqis Maulana (14), a student from Banyuwangi was beaten to death by a senior.

As a result, the Al-Hanafiyyah PPTQ Ponpes located in Kemayan Hamlet, Kranding Village, Mojo District, Kediri Regency, has not had a permit since its establishment in 2014. The Islamic Boarding School only has 93 students consisting of 74 female students and 19 female students.

"That the victim studied at Pondok Al-Hanfiyyah. The existence of the Pondok does not yet have a permit to build a boarding school," said Head of the Diniyah Education and Islamic Boarding School of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion of East Java, Mohammad As'adul Anam.

Anam explained, due to the unlicensed Al-Hanfiyyah Islamic Boarding School, the Ministry of Religion cannot take administrative actions such as closing locations.

His party can only respect the legal process that is in the realm of police authority. "We leave it to the applicable law," he explained.

According to him, most of the establishment of unlicensed Islamic boarding schools is not established by the government, but by kiai.

"The entire kiai was established. If the pesantren is revoked, the Koran activities will remain, because it is informal," he added.

The disclosure of this case began when there was a family report at the Glenmore Police in the jurisdiction of the Banyuwangi Police on Saturday, February 24.

Then, the Banyuwangi Police coordinated with the Kediri City Police on the report so that there was no further processing of the crime scene (TKP) and examination of witnesses.

The Kediri City Police have secured four students with the initials MN (18 years) address Sidoarjo, MA (18 years) address Nganjuk Regency, AF (16 years) address Denpasar Bali, and AK (17 years) address Surabaya.