Jakarta – The rape case of a female employee at the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM by four ASN men from the ministry has entered a new phase. The case files that were reopened after being sent to SP3 have been handed over by investigators to the Bogor City Public Prosecutor’s Office to prepare for trial.
Even so, the status of the submitted files is still a question mark. Has it been declared complete or P21 by the Attorney General’s Office and is it ready for trial? Or there is still a shortage of alias P18 and the prosecutor must return it to the investigators to complete it.
Apart from the legal process which seems slow and twists and turns like a labyrinth, apparently there are other things such as rows of ulcers in this case that can make your eyes pop.
First, the families of the rape victims admitted that they were under pressure from outsiders, who were strongly suspected of being from the perpetrators. Starting from the offering of bribes, to the intimidation of the victim’s family which led to the forced marriage of the victim with the initials ND with one of the perpetrators of the rape with the initials ZPA who was still a bachelor.
The victim’s parents, W said, after the rape of their child on December 6 2019, one day in March 2020 he was summoned by the Head of the Women and Children Protection Unit (Kanit PPA) of the Bogor Police to his room. Upon arriving in the room, W, who was accompanied by his wife, was handed a plastic bag by the Head of the PPA Unit. It contained Rp40 million in cash.
“Well, I’m confused, how do you want to accept it? How do you want to accept it? If you want to accept, you are afraid of being wrong, if you don’t accept, you are also afraid of being wrong. Yes, because going here and there costs money, but if we accept it it’s not as expected. But that’s it, whether we want to or not, we will receive the forty million, directly from the Kanit,” said W, some time ago.
The money given by the PPA unit, continued W, came from the perpetrators. Apart from money, said W, the police also facilitated the marriage of one of the perpetrators with the initials ZPA with his son, NDN, who was a victim of rape. All that was done to stop the investigation of this case.
Apart from that, W continued, there was also intimidation and pressure from the police during the investigation to the victim’s family so they would not proceed with the legal process.
“In terms of intervention, the court will pay a fee, it’s expensive. It is better if the child is married off to one of the perpetrators who is still single so that it becomes legal and the legal process can stop. Weird, right. We have become victims, really, we are even being victimized again,” complained W.
On March 13 2020, the victim with the initials NDN finally married ZPA. The victim was also presented with a peace agreement letter with the four perpetrators namely WH, MF, ZPA, and Nn which was signed by them and their families. In the letter dated March 3 2020, there were 8 points of agreement in the peace agreement that were offered by the police.
One of them is the willingness of the victim to withdraw the report at the Bogor City Police, solving this case amicably, and ZPA’s obligation to undergo marriage and provide a living for the victim, NDN.
Through ZPA’s marriage to NDN at KUA Cilandak, South Jakarta, as well as the agreement letter, Bogor Police investigators were finally able to release the four perpetrators as well as issue an investigation termination warrant (SP3).
Later, the attempt to get married turned out to be just a ruse by the perpetrators so that they could be free from criminal law. The clear evidence is that it is known that ZPA has never lived a household life as husband and wife with NDN after marriage. ZPA has never lived with NDN even though they are already husband and wife.
What’s even more ridiculous is that while married, it turned out that ZPA only gave NDN a living of Rp300,000 per month for 12 months. After that she filed for divorce in October 2022.
“We don’t have a problem with the divorce. But here it is increasingly clear that the marriage that took place was just an act,” said W, who is also registered as an echelon 3 ASN at the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM, furious.
The four perpetrators of the rape of NDN themselves are known to have different fates. The perpetrators MF and Nn, whose contracts were not extended at the time of the incident, were non-ASN/honorary status. Whereas the WH perpetrators, who at the time of the incident had the status of civil servants at the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM, group IIC and ZPA, who had civil servant status, were only parked as non-jobs and demoted.
But that was then. Some time ago, news circulated that WH was selected as one of the ASN recipients of a scholarship from the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM. Meanwhile, ZPA also appears to be stable again working as an employee at the ministry. There is absolutely no sign that they are the perpetrators of criminal acts under Article 285 or 286 of the Criminal Code (KUHP). Even though the threat was very clear, namely a maximum prison sentence of 12 years.
Regarding the narrative and disclosure of this true story, the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM itself has made firm rebuttals. Through the Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, Arif Rahman Hakim, it was emphatically stated that the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM had never once provided protection for perpetrators of rape.
“Not true at all. I can make it clear that from the very beginning of this case, we, the Cooperatives and Cooperatives Ministry, have provided assistance to victims and reported the perpetrators to the authorities and imposed disciplinary sanctions,” said Arif during a press conference at his office, Monday (24/10).
“We have never given privileges to the perpetrators for the crimes they have committed,” he continued.
He also said that the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM had also announced the dismissal of the four actors, including a one-level demotion for EWs with witness status. In addition, the Kementerian Koperasi and UKM has also promised to form a new Code of Ethics Council that is free from kinship relations.
“This new Ethics Council will take action indiscriminately on ministry officials who are suspected of trying to obstruct the handling of this case. And this has become our commitment,” said Arif Rahman Hakim, ending his statement. bembo
