Victims Of Sexual Harassment Agus Bentung Increase To 15 People

Head Of Bidhumas NTB Police AKBP Mohammad Kholid/ANTARA

The chairman of the Regional Disabilities Commission (KDD) of West Nusa Tenggara Province, Joko Jumadi, said that the victim of sexual harassment of the suspect who was vulnerable with the initials IWAS alias Agus Bentung increased from 13 to 15 people.

"As an illustration, today we received two victims who provided information about the alleged sexual harassment committed by IWAS, so we can convey the total number of victims to 15 people," said Joko Jumadi as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, December 6.

Regarding the age of additional victims who reported to the NTB Provincial KDD, Joko has not disclosed it. He only confirmed that the victim was a woman.

Meanwhile, the Director General of the NTB Regional Police, Kombes Syarif Hidayat, said that to this day there have been seven adult female victims who are included in the development of the handling of the IWAS case alias Agus Bentung.

First, one victim who was the reporter in the case file, plus two initial witnesses, including one of the first victim's colleagues, there were also two additional witnesses who experienced the same case.

"Actually, we have identified two more, one of which we have examined the BAP (examination report). So, we have examined a total of seven of them in the case file," he said.

Kombes Syarif emphasized that the statements of the six additional victims apart from the reporter had the status of supporting evidence of the need for IWAS case files.

"Six additional victims are victim witnesses who have experienced the same incident. They are BAP to strengthen supporting evidence for the first report. So, this investigation is based on one police report," he said.

The police said the victim witness who was included in the BAP case file belonging to the IWAS suspect was part of the number of victims who reported to the NTB Provincial KDD.

"I don't know if the next one, who has been registered at the KDD, will report to us in the form of a new police report, of course, for the next story. What is clear, whatever will be reported in the future, we will process it by looking at the developing situation," he said.

The victim of this case, he said, is an adult woman who is mostly a student.

He emphasized that the rule of law in cases of sexual harassment highly upholds the rights of victims, especially women.

"Most of these victims are women, some of them are female students, there are their considerations that we need to take care of as well. So, we ask that we both respect their rights, and we just wait for further developments," he said.