BMKG Civil Servants Who Recorded 6 Women In The Toilet Of The Office Fired Their Cellphones In A Bottle Of Clean Liquid

Bone Bolango Police Chief AKBP Muhammad Alli (center) while leading the press conference on the disclosure of pornographic crimes. ANTARA/Zulkifli Polimengo

GORONTALO - A civil servant who works at the Bone Bolango Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) apparently hid his cell phone in a clean fluid bottle that had been filled. Bone Bolango Police Chief AKBP Muhammad Alli said, in a video on condition, this cellphone was then placed in the office toilet and recorded a number of women who entered. The bottle was placed by the perpetrator in the corner of the bathroom floor with the camera pointing to the toilet. The perpetrator then left the cellphone in the toilet while recording the video. "The perpetrator has the initials RE (29), a resident of Gorontalo Regency," he said in Gorontalo, Sunday, March 24. There have been six women who have been victims of the perpetrator's nasty acts. According to his confession, this action has been recorded since 2020. The video of a woman being recorded has been used as personal consumption by the perpetrator. "The victim was six women who were still in the same office as the perpetrator, one of whom was RA who reported this incident to us. It happened at the Gorontalo BMKG Office, Moutong Village, Tilongkabila District, Bone Bolango Regency," said Muhammad Alli. According to him, this incident occurred on October 19, 2023 at around 14.00 WITA. When the victim RA was in the toilet, he saw and suspected two bottles of cleaning fluid placed on one side of the room. This suspicion made the victim examine it and found that one of the cleaning bottles had been split and holed, in which there was a cell phone (cellphone) unit that was still recording.

For his actions, RE will be charged with pornographic crimes and applied to Article 29 of Law Number 44 of 2008 concerning Pornography, or Article 14 paragraph (1) letter a of Law no. 12 of 2022 concerning the Crime of Sexual Violence.