KPI Is Considered Not Serious In Handling Cases, Lawyer Says The Alleged Perpetrator Has Not Yet Received A Letter Of Inactivity

Screen capture of the online press conference with legal counsel for the alleged perpetrator of sexual abuse at KPI/ Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - Tegar Putuhena, the attorney for the alleged perpetrator of sexual harassment and harassment, RT and EO said that his client had not yet received a letter of deactivation as an employee.

"Until now there has been no letter of deactivation whatsoever from KPI. So it was deactivated only based on word of mouth," said Tegar in a virtual discussion with reporters, Friday, September 10.

Tegar questioned why KPI had not yet issued a deactivation letter to its client. In fact, the status of being free from duty or inactive has been announced by the Commissioner of KPI since last Thursday.

He considered that KPI did not seem serious in responding to this alleged case of sexual harassment and bullying. In fact, he emphasized that this case did not only harm the victim, but also his client as the alleged perpetrator.

Tegar said that KPI's lack of seriousness could be seen from the commissioner, who is currently out of town.

"Since last week the KPI leader has not been in Jakarta. On the 1st of the alleged viral harassment case, on the 2nd they had a plenary meeting, my client was disabled. Then since then the only KPI chairman was in Jakarta," he said.

The case of sexual harassment and bullying that happened to MS emerged after he wrote an open letter which went viral on social media last Wednesday.

In the open letter, MS admitted that he had been a victim of bullying since he worked at KPI in 2012. He even experienced sexual harassment by five of his co-workers in 2015 at the KPI office.

MS admitted that he had reported it to his superiors and the police in 2019, but there was no response.

After this news went viral, KPI moved to conduct an internal investigation. In fact, the case has already been rolled out at the Central Jakarta Metro Police.