Remember The Sodomy Scandal At JIS? Mother Of The Victim Theresia Pipit Files An Appeal Against Judge's Verdict

Arlandi Council of Judges reads out the verdict in the lawsuit (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court (PN Jaksel) has granted the family claim of the victim of a sexual violence case by the Jakarta International School or Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) teacher, but the victim's family, Theresia Pipit Widowati, as the plaintiff, has filed an appeal.

"Sentencing the defendants at Renteng's expense in the form of material losses amounting to Rp1,044,274,063. Rejecting the demands of other plaintiffs and the rest. Sentencing the defendants to pay the costs incurred in this case Rp3,856,000," said South Jakarta District Court judge Arlandi at the South Jakarta District Court as quoted by Antara. , Wednesday, August 4th.

Based on their decision, the panel of judges tried in the convention, in an exception stating that the exceptions to the demands of Defendants 1-7 and the exceptions to the demands of Defendant 8 (JIS) and the claims of Defendant 9 (PT ISS Indonesia) cannot be accepted in its entirety.

Theresia Pipit Widowati sued Defendants 1-7, namely Neil Bantleman, Ferdinant Miche alias Ferdinant Tjiong, Afrischa Styami alias Icha, Syahrial bin Nasrul Jaka, Virgiawan Amin alias Awan bin Suparman, Agun Iskandar alias Agun bin Nana and Zainal Abidin bin Ali Subrata .

In the main case, the judge granted the plaintiff's claim in part. It is stated that Defendants 1 to Defendants 9 have committed acts against the law (PMH).

Responding to the decision, Fawaz Basyarahiel as the plaintiff's lawyer team admitted that he was disappointed with the judge's decision, especially regarding the nominal material loss of Rp. 1.042 billion. In fact, the plaintiff demanded compensation of Rp. 374 billion.

"We are disappointed with the nominal, it doesn't mean we are pursuing the nominal target. But to compensate for the abuse of children, it's really priceless," said Fawaz.

According to him, the reason for the claim for material losses amounting to Rp374 billion is for the future of children who are victims of sexual violence. Because, all do not know how long the child who becomes the victim will recover from the trauma.

"We don't know how long the fate of this child will recover. So that's what we accumulated. However, according to the judges' consideration, it was not granted because we could not prove it," said Fawaz.

Therefore, Fawaz said that his party would file an appeal against the decision on material loss that was handed down by the panel of judges to the defendants. "We are waiting for the results of the decision to be studied and we will appeal the value of the loss given. Because our losses are far away," he said.

The plaintiff in his petition demanded medical expenses, care and expenses for the management of the plaintiff's child which had been incurred by the plaintiff, both in the hospital and treatment by a psychologist for the disease suffered by the plaintiff's child.

Furthermore, medical expenses and other costs that will be incurred by the plaintiff later until the plaintiff's child enters retirement age are US$25,000,000 or around Rp.

Furthermore, the costs of the plaintiff's immaterial losses that arise directly as a result of this problem include the loss of the plaintiff's child's opportunity to enjoy and utilize his childhood happily.

Mental and psychological suffering of the plaintiff's child and severe trauma, so that the plaintiff's child cannot feel comfortable in school like normal children his age and live in fear every day.

Alleged cases of sexual harassment at JIS occurred in 2014. It started with Theresia Pipit Widowati's suspicion of her son M who refused to wear pants to school.

Theresia then checked her child at SOS Medika Clinic Cipete because, according to her child's confession, someone wanted to insert their genitals into the rectum. Thresia also reported this case to the Polda Metro Jaya. An investigation was carried out.

In the investigation report (BAP), sexual harassment is said to have occurred not only in one day, but three days at different times and lasted 13 times. A number of names of janitors were dragged along, starting from VA, S, ZA, AI, AS, and A.