JAKARTA - The National Police confirmed that the arrest and appointment of high-ranking officials from the Indonesian Action Coalition (US) in Medan and Jakarta were accompanied by sufficient preliminary evidence.
Head of the Public Information Bureau of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono, said one proof of this was conversations on the WhatsApp group, proposals, and uploads on social media. From this there is an allegation of sedition.
"If colleagues read the WA, they are horrified. No wonder if anarchists occur in the field, they are people who do not really understand, easily ignited," said Awi at the Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Jakarta, Tuesday, October 13.
Awi explained that OUR officials who were arrested in Medan and Jakarta were not part of a WhatsApp group. "Not joined (in a WhatsApp group). All will be profiled. Case by case profiling," added Awi.
However, Awi did not specify when the conversation started. This is what investigators are currently studying and has already included in the investigation material.
"This is related to the Omnibus Law Cipta Kerja demonstration which ended in anarchism. It is reasonable to suspect that they (OUR officials) provided misleading information, smelled of racial violence and incitement," added Awi.
Karopenmas also ensured that the US activists who were arrested had planned to incite the destruction of public facilities and attacks on the authorities.
"They did plan in such a way as to bring this, carry that, do the destruction there, everything was clearly exposed (in the WA group)," said Awi.
Previously, there were eight US activists who were arrested by the police, namely Juliana, Devi, Wahyu Rasari Putri, Khairi Amri, Kingkin Anida, Anton Permana, Syahganda Nainggolan and Jumhur Hidayat. Five of them have been named as suspects and detained at the Police Criminal Investigation Detention Center.
They are suspected of violating Article 45 A paragraph 2 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 19 of 2016 concerning ITE and or Article 160 of the Criminal Code concerning sedition, which carries a sentence of up to six years in prison.
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