AL And R Officially Become Suspects In The Babarsari Riot Case

Dirreskrimum Pol Kombes Ade Ary Syam Indradi shows a photo of a Navy suspect with DPO status at the DIY Regional Police Headquarters, Yogyakarta, Wednesday (ANTARA/HO/DIY Police)

JAKARTA - The Yogyakarta Police have named two people with the initials AL alias L and R as suspects in the case of violence in Jambusari, Depok, Sleman Regency, which is strongly suspected of being the cause of the riots in Babarsari, Sleman Regency, last Monday, July 4.

"We have carried out an investigation and identified two suspects, the first is brother AL alias L, the second suspect is brother R," said Director of Criminal Investigation at the DIY Regional Police Kombes Pol Ade Ary Syam Indradi at the Yogyakarta Regional Police Headquarters, Yogyakarta, Wednesday, July 6, quoted from Antara.

At the scene, in Jambusari on Saturday (2/7), said Ade, the two suspects committed violence which resulted in three people being injured.

"One person suffered a wound on his right hand, the second suffered a wound to the neck due to a sharp weapon, the third suffered a wound to his thigh due to being hit by an arrow," he said.

In that case, both of them were suspected of committing violence together in public against people and violating the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951.

Although the suspect has been named, the police are still searching for the two people.

"We are conducting a search for these two suspects and one of them, namely the Navy brother, we have issued a wanted list (DPO)," he said.

Determination of the DPO status of AL because the suspect was not found after an attempt was made to arrest and search the address of the family's residence AL alias L, while for suspect R, the police will still confirm the address of his residence.

"For the Navy suspect, we went to his family's house and they weren't there," he said.

Ade hopes that people who know about the Navy's whereabouts immediately report to the police.

He asked no party to help hide the suspect.

"As regulated in Article 221 of the Criminal Code, anyone who helps hide someone who has committed a crime or helps or helps people from the investigation process can be threatened with a criminal act," he said.

Previously, it was known that there was a riot between groups in the Babarsari area on Monday (4/7). As a result, a number of shop houses and motorbikes were damaged.

The DIY Police suspect that the riot was the aftermath of a commotion at a karaoke place in Babarsari.

The violence in Jambusari is said to have triggered the inter-group riots.