REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The police to immediately hands over alleged abuse case against two minors by Habib Bahar bin Smith to the prosecutor's office. The filing of the case handled by the West Java Regional Police was already in the completion stage.
"No later than next week the file will be delegated to the Public Prosecutor (JPU)," said spokeperson of the National Police, Brigadier General Dedi Prasetyo at the National Police Headquarters, Jakarta, Wednesday (Jan 2).
Besides transferring Bahar's files, the National Police had also examined Bahar comprehensively. "Everything is examined in detail and the files are being compiled," he said.
Bahar became a suspect for abusing two minors with the initials MHU (17) and ABJ (18) in the Tajul Alawiyyin Islamic Boarding School in Pabuaran, Kemang District, West Java on Saturday (Dec 1) last year. He was charged with Article 170 of the Criminal Code and or 351 of the Criminal Code and or Article 80 of Law 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection.
Chairman of the FPI Legal Aid Institute, Sugito Atmo Pawiro, admitted that Habib Bahar abused two minors for imitating his style and even doing things that damaged his reputation. Acccording to him, Bahar and his legal team had reported the behavior of those two children to the police, but there was no follow-up.
"It turned out that these two fraudsters (children who were abused) have been repeatedly reported by Bahar, but there wasn't any action from the police," Sugito said when confirmed by Republika.co.id on Thursday (Dec 20, 2018).
In fact, Sugito explained, the act of cheating and defaming someone was a crime. Sugito said that this blunt legal attitude caused Bahar to handle the problem by himself as he felt that the cases in this country could not all be processed and the police seemed to be picking up cases in handling it.
"I personally admit that Habib Bahar's attitude which was too emotional is wrong, vigilante acts cannot be justified. But none of this will happened if the law run fairly. There is no result without a cause," he said.
The case started from a video uploaded to the internet which shows two children acted as if they were Habib Bahar. They conducted behaviors which should not be carried out by an ulama.
For example, the video recorded a child who was smoking while driving a car with his feet, then asks for money to and fro, and other attitudes again, making bad image of a habib. Apart from all the reasons, Sugito said, he agreed that Habib Bahar was indeed guilty in this position. However, he felt strange, children who acted like thugs were not examined.
He questioned the police as the minors who committed the crime have not been processed legally. "It's like a thief beaten by a resident and then the resident is arrested while the thief is released. Which law justifies something like this?" Sugito said.
In addition to the abuse case, Bahar was also caught up in the case of alleged hate speeches and racial discrimination handled by the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit. Bahar became a suspect because he called President Jokowi as 'sissy' during the closing ceremony of Maulid Arba'in on January 8, 2017 at Gedung Ba’alawi, Ilir Timur Palembang, South Sumatra.
Bahar underwent an examination at Bareskrim Polri on Thursday (Dec 6) and was determined as a suspect. Bahar allegedly violated Law Number 40 Year 2008 concerning the Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Article 207 of the Criminal Code with a penalty of more than 5 years in prison.
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