The Case Of Brimob Member Murdered By His Wife In Sorong Papua Hasn't Been Completed Since 2018, Komnas PA Asks For Justice Calls Victim's Child Still Traumatized

Chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection, Arist Merdeka Sirait. AMONG

JAKARTA - The head of the National Commission for Child Protection (PA) Arist Merdeka Sirait said the eight-year-old son of a member of the Papuan Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) Police Brigadier Yohanes Fernando Siahaan, who was allegedly killed by his ex-wife was deeply traumatized.

"The boy is still traumatized by the name of his biological mother with the initials AP, who has been named by the Sorong City Police as a suspect in the alleged murder of her husband, Brigadier John Fernando Siahaan in 2018," said Sirait, in Sorong, West Papua, Monday.

According to him, let alone hearing the name of the suspect's biological mother, just hearing the name Sorong, the eight boys were traumatized by fear. "I have proven this by seeing the boy twice, he is still traumatized by the alleged murder because he is a key witness," he said.

The boy is currently in Jakarta and under the protection and supervision of the National Commission for Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia.

He explained that the alleged incident of Siahaan's murder occurred in 2018 when the victim's child was only six years old, and the legal process was still ongoing and unclear.

Because of that, said Sirait, his goal was to come to Sorong to meet the police and the local prosecutor's office to ensure the legal process continues so that there is justice for the boy.

He said that after meeting them, two suspects had been named in the alleged murder of Siahaan.

The case has also been transferred to the prosecutor's office by the Sorong City Police, but the file has not been declared complete because there are several things that need to be completed, including the statement of the boy as a key witness.

"The purpose of my coming here is to ensure that the legal process of the case goes on because the boy must receive legal certainty that the death of his father is a clear legal process," said Sirait.