Many Former Violence In Afif Maulana's Body, The Family Asks For The Victim's Body To Be EXhumed

The audit of Afif Maulana's family with Commission III of the DPR (DOK Nailin/VOI)

JAKARTA - The family asked for an exhumation on the body of Afif Maulana, a 13-year-old boy who died on the Kuranji bridge, Padang City on June 9. The reason is, there are allegations of violence received by the victim before finally taking lives. Director of LBH Padang Indira Suryani said, there are three things that the family has obtained based on the results of investigations related to the location of torture at the Kuranji bridge, Kuranji Police, and West Sumatra Police. "As a result of what? There was one child named Afif Maulana who was found dead and 18 people consisting of 11 children and 7 adults were tortured. What happened to Afif Maulana's body? There were traces of violence found, especially on the left and back," said Indira during an audience with Commission III of the DPR, Monday, August 5. Indira revealed that the people who bathed Afif Maulana found traces of blunt violence, which were suspected of being used for long rattan manau or batunging. Meanwhile Afif died of bleeding from his lungs from stabbing the back left rib. "Not only was the blunt violence situation on Afif's body, but also we found signs of torture on 18 other people's bodies. There were strokes from rattan, kicks, used cigarette burns on several of the victim's children's bodies. And the used cigarette burns were around 15-20 both in the stomach and in the back," he said. Based on the results of the family's investigation, continued Indira, there was an act by the police to torture him by hitting him using a device such as manau or batung, kick and cigarette sundut. Even the family also found allegations of sexual violence, such as being told to kiss a type and touch the chest. "Then stripped him naked until in the early hours of the morning, the 18 people only wore underwear and were told to respect the flag in front of the Kuranji Police," said Indira. "In addition, other physical abuses were told to roll over, jump up and down 200 times, creep and coercion other physical actions and it happened at the West Sumatra Regional Police. So these 18 people were picked up at around 11 o'clock by their parents," he added. Therefore, the family asked for an exhumation from the victim and thoroughly investigated this case fairly. Responding to the family's statement, the Deputy Speaker of the DPR who is also on duty in the legal and human rights commission, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad ordered Commission III of the DPR to ask the police to exhume Afif Maulana's body.

"Good thank you. Hopefully, friends of Commission III will all accept the exhumation from the victim's parents," said Dasco.