DENPASAR - A religious leader or called sulinggih in Bali, with the initials IWM (38) became a suspect of sexual immorality. IWM molested a woman with the initials KYD (33).

Sexual abuse occurred during the ritual of melukat or self-cleaning in Tukad Campuhan Tampaksiring, Gianyar Regency, on July 4, 2020.

In this case, the IWM top brass have been named suspects. Now the suspect and evidence have been submitted to the Denpasar District Prosecutor's Office, Bali.

"Today at the Denpasar Prosecutor's Office, IWM has been handed over from Polda investigators to the Public Prosecutor (JPU). With this handover, the handling authority is transferred to the Prosecutor," said Kasipenkum at the Bali Prosecutor's Office A Luga Harlianto, Wednesday, March 24.

Luga explained, the Bali High Prosecutor's Office had received the handover of the suspect and evidence of the case on behalf of IWM from Bali Police investigators. The IWM sulinggih person is suspected of violating Article 289, 290 paragraph (1), Article 281 of the Criminal Code on suspicion of a criminal act of obscenity

"We use the authority to carry out detention on the basis of objective and subjective reasons that have been fulfilled to carry out detention. The objective reasons are the articles that are indicted against IWM for more than 5 years, while the subjective reasons are where there is a concern that IWM will run away or repeat his actions," said Luga.


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