LRR Initial Lecturer In Mataram Threatened With 12 Years In Prison For Cases Of Same-sex Sexual Harassment

Head of the Sub-Directorate for Reskrimum of the NTB Police AKBP Ni Made Pujawati. BETWEEN/HO-Polda NTB

A lecturer with the initials LRR in Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara, who is a suspect in a case of alleged sexual harassment of the same sex is threatened with 12 years in prison.

"The maximum is 12 years in prison, but we add weight for allegedly abusing four victims. So, the maximum penalty is more than 12 years," said Head of the Sub-Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the NTB Police AKBP Ni Made Pujawati in Mataram, Antara, Tuesday, April 22.

The threat of punishment for the LRR suspect is in accordance with the criminal rule of punishment stated in Article 6 of Law Number 12 of 2022 concerning the Crime of Sexual Violence (TPKS).

"So, the alleged violation of the suspect is related to the criminal act of physical sexual harassment as referred to in Article 6 of the TPKS Law," he said.

From the determination, Pujawati said that investigators had detained the suspect LRR in the detention cell of the Directorate of Detention and Evidence of the NTB Police.

"Detention has been carried out since yesterday, April 21, 2025," he said.

The Director of General Criminal Investigation at the NTB Police, Senior Commissioner of Police Syarif Hidayat, on the previous occasion stated that the determination and detention of the LRR suspect was the result of a case title that had found at least two pieces of evidence.

Investigators obtained evidence from a series of witness examinations, and heard the opinion of criminal law experts, forensic psychology, and language.

The NTB Coalition Stops Sexual Violence (KSKS) which also pays attention to handling this case by collecting the number of victims as many as 12 people. They are from among students from a number of universities where the reported teaching and learning are reported.

In the aftermath of the disclosure of LRR's actions, KSKS NTB said that the campus had taken a firm stance by stopping LRR as a lecturer.