GRIB Jaya Says Tony Simanjuntak Is Not An Official Member, Strictly Condemns The Burning Of Police Cars In Depok

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JAKARTA - The Central Leadership Council (DPP) of the United Indonesia People's Movement (GRIB) Jaya emphasized that Tony Simanjuntak (TS) was not an official member of the community organization (ormas) chaired by Hercules Rozario Marshal.

Tony Simanjuntak is the mastermind behind the vandalism and burning of an official car belonging to the Depok Metro Police that occurred in the Harjamukti area, Cimanggis.

"That Tony Simanjuntak's brother is not an official member of GRIB Jaya," said Secretary General of the GRIB Jaya DPP, Zulfikar, in his statement, Wednesday, April 23.

According to him, Tony Simanjuntak and his group have just volunteered to become members of GRIB Jaya after committing an act of violating the law. However, the proposal was never processed by the regional administrators. Thus, it is not registered in the organization's official membership database.

In addition, DPD GRIB Jaya West Java has never issued SK, mandate, or KTA on behalf of Tony Simanjuntak. They are said to have bought their own attributes and raised the organization's flag in the dispute location without the knowledge of the West Java DPD and the GRIB Jaya DPP.

"So Tony's brother had proposed to enter GRIB to become a member of GRIB, that's after he committed the law violations he made. So he did that to enter GRIB with his group," he said.

Tony Simanjuntak and his group's actions, said Zulfikar, are very prohibited in the organization. Therefore, GRIB Jaya emphasized that Tony Simanjuntak was not authorized on behalf of the organization, and their actions did not represent GRIB Jaya.

DPP GRIB Jaya together with the General Chair of GRIB Jaya, Hercules Rozario Marshal, he said, strongly condemns the act of burning the police car. This is because the act is considered a barbaric, embarrassing, and tarnished the good name of the organization and society in general.

"Once again, I say firmly convey here that the perpetrators are not members of GRIB Jaya who are officially registered in our database," said Zulfikar.

GRIB Jaya, continued Zulfikar, will not provide any legal defense against the perpetrators, even if they are proven to be members of the law. This organization fully supports the efforts of the police to arrest all perpetrators and take action against them according to the law.

"So the General Chair conveyed to me to give information to the public, asking the police to arrest all the perpetrators of crimes, the perpetrators of violations of the law who yesterday committed very embarrassing actions," he said.

Not only that, GRIB Jaya does not justify the illegal attitude of its members. This is because the General Chairperson of GRIB Jaya always emphasizes that every member, including the leader, must comply with the applicable law.

"So we support the steps taken by the police to take action, arrest all of them, submit them to the court and they must be held accountable for their actions," he said.

As a preventive measure, Zulfikar instructed all DPD Chairmen, DPC, and all members of GRIB Jaya in Indonesia to be more disciplined in the use of organizational attributes. The use of attributes, he said, must obtain permission and be carried out through official coordination with legitimate administrators.

"If it is found that a member abused the attribute without permission, the General Chair ordered to be fired immediately and his attributes revoked. We do not want an intruder to damage the good name of the organization," concluded Zulfikar.

Tony Simanjuntak is one of six people who have been named as suspects in the case of vandalism and burning an official car belonging to the Depok Metro Police that occurred in the Harjamukti area, Cimanggis. His role, ordered the arson.