REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Chairwoman of Prabowo Subianto -Sandiaga Uno campaign team, Nanik S Deyang met Jakarta Police summon related as witness for suspect in hoax case, Ratna Sarumpaet. One of Nanik’s lawyer, Ega said his client arrived at 13.00 WIB (Indonesia West Standard Time).
She immediately entered the investigation room of Jakarta Police General Criminal Investigation Directorate. “Mrs Nanik is accompanied by five lawyers,” said Ega on Monday (Oct 15).
According to Jakarta Police spokesman Argo Yuwono, Nanik is currently still being questioned by investigator. Police has sent a summon letter to Nanik on last Friday (Oct 12).
“She meets the summon and investigator is still questioning her about RS (Ratna Sarumpaet),” Argo said.
The case started when Ratna who was one of spokepersons of Prabowo-Sandiaga campaign team decided to have cosmetic surgery on Sept 21, without any consent of her families. The next day, a picture of her with swollen face circulated on social media. To her families, she claimed it was a result of an assault happened in Bandung, West Java.
She kept her secret for a week. Ratna also hide the truth from her politician friends, including Amien Rais, Prabowo Subianto, and Fadli Zon. On Oct 2, Fadli tweeted about the assault and it catched public attention.
Later that night, Ratna met Prabowo and his national campaign team to clarified about the incident. Ratna did not tell the truth yet. Prabowo then stood for her, saying he would met national police chief to discuss the case.
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Nanik as Prabowo-Sandiaga chairwoman then explained the incident had taken place on Sept 21, near Husein Sastranegara International Airport. However, on Oct 3, police found out that Ratna had not been in Bandung that day, but at Jakarta hospital specializing in cosmetic surgery.
Ratna then admitted to have lied. She said pictures of her swollen eyes that went viral were the result of liposuction and apologized to Prabowo and public for her deception.
Jakarta Police arrested Ratna when she was about to take a flight to Chile at Soekarno Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten, to attend international playwrights conference on Oct 4. She was named as a suspect under Article 14 Law No. 1/1946 on criminal law regulations and Article 28 juncto Article 45 Law No. 11/2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE).
Earlier, police have questioned senior politician Amien Rais and Acting Head of the Jakarta Tourism and Culture Office Asiantoro for the case.
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