Disrupted Access Roads To Sawah Closed, The Man With Baya Aniaya Neighbors Using Bamboo

Pandeglang Police Chief AKP Osman Sigalingging police uniform/ Photo; Doc. Banten Police

PANDEGLANG - Pandeglang Police have arrested a middle-aged man with the initials SA (50), who abused his neighbor using a bamboo stick, in Sukaratu Village, Majasari District. As a result of the persecution, the victim suffered a number of injuries to his body and head.

Pandeglang Police Chief AKP Osman Sigalingging said the SA perpetrator was annoyed that he assaulted his own neighbor named SH (58) by hitting him with a bamboo bar until the bamboo was destroyed.

"It happened on November 22, 2022, there was a misunderstanding, the victim often closed the road to the perpetrator's rice fields, finally the perpetrators of the victim's abuse with bamboo," Osman said in a written statement, Wednesday, December 7.

According to the perpetrator's statement, he did this because he was annoyed that the victim often closed the road to his rice fields.

"The victim SH often closed the road to SA rice fields, because he often opened and closed the road. SA was annoyed and finally abused the victim SH with bamboo," said Osman.

Perpetrator SA also admitted that he only abused the victim with a bamboo bar even though at that time he was carrying a sharp machete. He also admitted that he was sorry for his actions.

"The perpetrator did not hit the victim with a machete, he only used bamboo, the SA perpetrator also said he did not know how many times SA hit the victim because of emotion," he explained.

Osman also said that as a result of the abuse, the victim suffered injuries to his body and was treated at the hospital.

"The victim was taken to the hospital because he suffered injuries to his body," he explained.

In addition to a destroyed bamboo, the Pandeglang Police also secured SA's sharp weapon as other evidence.

As a result of his actions, the perpetrator was caught in Article 351 of the Criminal Code with a threat of 7 years in prison.

"The evidence is that there are victim's clothes, machetes and bamboo that have been destroyed by the victim to persecute. Our perpetrators are snared under Article 351 of the Criminal Code," he concluded.