Satpol PP/WH Handling The Case Of Suspected Gay Who Was Arrested In Banda Aceh

BETWEEN/HO/Satpol PP/WH Banda Aceh.

BANDA ACEH - The Civil Service Police Unit and Wihayatul Hisbah ((Satpol PP and WH) Banda Aceh are still investigating two suspected gay or homo men who were arrested from one of the boarding houses in the capital city of Aceh Province.

"Both of them are currently being handled by investigators, the indication is that they are homo," said Head of Islamic Sharia Enforcement of Satpol PP and WH Banda Aceh, Roslina, in Banda Aceh, Monday, February 17, as reported by ANTARA.

Roslina said the two men were initially raided by the public on Saturday (16/2) night in a boarding room in the Shia Kuala District area. Then, residents handed it over to Satpol PP and WH for further processing.

"So the pair concerned was arrested by residents, then residents contacted us officers," he said.

As for the two people who were arrested, one person (warian) was a resident from North Sumatra and worked in Banda Aceh. Meanwhile, another student from Langsa City.

He explained that the arrest began with the suspicion of the local community, they often saw the boarding house being visited by men.

The boarding house, he said, was rented or occupied by someone who could be categorized as transvestites, and it was reported that the person concerned often brought men into his boarding house.

"Changes with the person who comes there, sometimes stays, it then makes people suspicious, so that that night when this man came there, the residents arrested him," he said.

When arrested, said Roslina, their position was not in an act that violated Islamic law (interconnected). However, based on the information, the man wanted to stay at the boarding house.

It is indicated that both of them were suspected of committing acts of violating Islamic law. This is because of the confession from the transvestites that he had done it with someone else. It's just that, that night they haven't done it.

"Because there was a confession from the transvestites, he and the others did that, but the same one he said that night was not," he said.

Dira said that so far there has been no conclusion from the investigator regarding the case, because a study is still being carried out in accordance with the qanun implementation of Islamic law.

"For example, in the qanun it can be interesting, for example, the perpetrators who indicated the perpetrators were literate. But when they were arrested they were not doing it. This is being studied by investigators," said Roslina.