Police Reveal Case Of Invitation To Emergency PPKM Protest In Banyumas

PHOTO VIA ANTARA/Perpetrators of the emergency PPKM demonstration invitation in Banyumas

PURWOKERTO - Police have uncovered a case of distributing leaflets inviting demonstrations to protest the policy of imposing restrictions on community activities (PPKM).

"The disclosure of this case began with the circulation of leaflets containing invitations for demonstrations which were uploaded through a Facebook group under the name Seputar Cilongok," said Banyumas Police Chief Kombes M Firman L Hakim as quoted by Antara, Monday, July 19.

The leaflet reads "The Banyumas Community Alliance with KBPPB (Banyumas Market Traders Family) Moves to Demand Justice Regarding PPKM!!! Monday, 19 July 2021, Banyumas Regent's Pendopo Juang Point at 13.00 Until Demands Are Fulfilled!! People's Welfare Is the State's Responsibility! !!".

The police chief said that his party immediately investigated the GPZ account that uploaded the leaflet to the Seputar Cilongok group.

From the results of the investigation, his party found the owner of the GPZ account who was known to be a resident of Kedungbanteng District, Banyumas, with the initials NP (25), on Sunday (18/7).

"After the inspection, the NP said that the leaflets were obtained from FS (27), a resident of the Subdistrict of Sumbang, Banyumas, via WhatsApp. We immediately conducted an inspection of FS and it was found that the leaflets came from CH (46), a resident of North Purwokerto Subdistrict," continued Kombes Firman.

Based on FS's confession, this was followed up with an examination of CH and it was found that the person concerned received the leaflet from SDR (34), a resident of West Purwokerto District.

While the results of the examination of the SDR, it is known that the leaflets came from BSW (49), a resident of Kedungbanteng District.

Meanwhile, the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit for the Banyumas Police, Kompol Berry, said that the perpetrator with the initials NP admitted that he was upset with the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM, so he uploaded the leaflet to a Facebook group.

According to him, this was done by NP because he was unable to work in line with the closure of his workplace and there was news that the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM would be extended.

"The purpose of the NP to upload the leaflet is to invite members of the Facebook group to voice their voices according to the posts uploaded," he said.

The Head of Criminal Investigation Unit said that his party was still exploring the motivations of the perpetrators to upload the leaflets that disturbed the residents of Banyumas, including developing the case to find other perpetrators who made the leaflets.

According to Kompol Berry, his party is still investigating the case and has not named a suspect, while the evidence secured includes one smartphone and three printed screenshots uploaded from the GPZ account in the Facebook group along with screenshots of comments from the perpetrator's uploads. .

"The perpetrators will be charged with Article 14 Paragraphs (1) and (2) Jo. Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 1946 concerning Criminal Law Regulations with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison," said the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit.