Viral Confession Of Bukittinggi Prison Prisoners Having Transacted Drugs With Mami Linda, Kalapas Denies

Photo archive - Defendant Linda Pujiastuti (Photo: DOK ANTARA)

BUKITTINGGI - Bukittinggi Class II-A Penitentiary, West Sumatra, denied the confession of a man who claimed to be a prison inmate and had transacted with Linda Pudjiastuti or Mami Linda whose video went viral on social media. "The news has no truth value over its entire content, and it is not based on the facts that actually happened. These informations are imaginative and slanderous, so they are misleading," said Head of Class II-A Prison Bukittinggi Marten to reporters in Bukittinggi, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, April 4. He said his party had checked the residential rooms and faces of inmates thoroughly to prove the truth of the prisoners in the viral video. "Fakta di lapangan serta berdasarkan verifikasi Sistem Database Pemasyarakatan menunjukkan bahwa tidak pernah ada warga binaan Lapas Bukittinggi bernama Febri Kurnia, seperti yang dimaksud dalam informasi ERA.id dan media sosial yang viral itu," jelas Marten. He emphasized that the name was also not found in the data of the Bukittinggi prison inmates who had been declared free. Marten added that checking the data of prisoners according to the confession from the video that spread quickly, it also involved the police. "We are also coordinating with the head of the Bukittinggi Resort Police and the head of the Narcotics Unit, that the name has never had legal problems in the Bukittinggi area," he added. Based on this, Marten asked the media account that broadcast the information to revoke and delete the content. "We also ask the account owner to submit an open apology so as not to cause problems and confirm the meaning of the press itself as stated in Law Number 40 of 1999 concerning the Press," he said. Previously, the video of the alleged confession of a Class II-A Bukittinggi prisoner went viral in cyberspace. The 2 minutes 9 second video contains the confession of a Bukittinggi prison prisoner who often transacts with Linda Pudjiastuti alias Anita. "Assalamualaikum, a little maybe talk about Mami Linda. I know about Mami Linda starting from the conversation of the inmates at Biaro Prison (Bukittinggi Prison)," said the man in the video. The man wearing a black shirt and wearing a white mask admitted that he had contact with Mami Linda about the delivery of marijuana-type drugs. "I was told by my boss to send 50 kilograms of marijuana to Mami Linda. I was told to deliver it to the Padang Panjang City vegetable terminal," he said. However, after the goods were received with an agreed time limit, Mami Linda did not pay the rest of the marijuana payment to her boss. "That's why Mami Linda became a conversation at the Bukittinggi Prison. Many people are looking for her. It is common knowledge that she often cheats," he explained. In addition to ordering drugs, the man in the video claims to be named Febri added that Mami Linda also supplies drugs.

"I am Febri, swear in the name of God, what I am talking about is true, there is no coercion from anywhere," he said ending his statement. Mami Linda is one of the defendants in the drug case that ensnared former West Sumatra Police Chief Teddy Minahasa.