Roy Suryo's Investigation As A Suspect Has Not Been Completed, Metro Jaya Police Will Continue Next Thursday

Roy Suryo/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Metro Jaya Police has scheduled a follow-up examination of Roy Suryo as a suspect in the Borobudur Temple stupa meme case on Thursday, July 28.

The Head of Public Relations of the Metro Jaya Police, Grand Commissioner Pol Endra Zulpan said this was done after Roy Suryo had previously asked to stop the examination for health reasons on Friday, July 22.

"We will continue to investigate the suspect's status. Because yesterday he asked to stop the examination because he felt unwell," said Endra Zulpan, quoting Antara, Saturday, July 23.

Zulpan added that his party accepted the reason that the former Minister of Youth and Sports was not healthy during the examination yesterday.

Furthermore, he said that Roy Suryo's examination as a suspect was needed to complete the completeness of the case file.

"The investigation as a suspect has not yet been completed, so we will continue it later," said Zulpan.

Previously, investigators from Metro Jaya Police did not arrest Roy Suryo after undergoing examination as a suspect in the case of the Borobudur Temple stupa meme that resembles President Joko Widodo's face, on Friday, July 22, evening.

Roy Suryo's health condition was the reason the former Minister of Youth and Sports was not detained.

Roy Suryo, who underwent 12 hours of questioning as a suspect at the General Crime Directorate (Ditreskrimum) of the Metro Jaya Police, only came out at around 22.20 western Indonesia time in a weak condition and received help using a wheelchair when he got into his car.

The police have named Roy Suryo as a suspect in the Borobudur Temple stupa meme case. Roy Suryo was reported to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police regarding hate speech containing SARA by representatives of Indonesian Buddhists.

The report was recorded with LP/B/0293/VI/2022/SPKT/BARESKRIM dated June 20, 2022.

In the report, the complainant included evidence in the form of a "printout" of the Twitter account @KRMTRoySUryo2.

Roy Suryo uploaded the Borobodur Stupa meme on Friday, June 10, as a protest against the policy to increase the entrance ticket price to Borobudur Temple by IDR 750 thousand. The government later canceled the policy.

In his upload, Roy Suryo included the original account address of the original uploader of the meme.

He took down the upload because it was a polemic in the community and apologized to Buddhists.

Not only that but Roy was also reported on the same case by Herna Sutan to the Metro Jaya Police. The report is received and registered with the number: LP/B/3042/VI/2022/SPKT/Metro Jaya Police on 20 June 2022.

Roy Suryo was charged with Article 28 Paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 45 Paragraph 2 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning ITE. Then also Article 156a of the Criminal Code and Article 15 of Law Number 1 of 1946 concerning the Criminal Law Regulations.