MSAT (42), son of a well-known kiai in Jombang, East Javawho became a fugitive in the alleged case molestation santriwati herself again failed to be caught by the police.
Hundreds of joint personnel from the East Java Police and the Jombang Police who carried out the pursuit and siege were made quiet last weekend.
The pursuit of the MSAT began on Sunday afternoon (3/7). At that time, the police chased a convoy of cars carrying MSAT, from the direction of Sambongdukuh Village, Jombang.
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“On Sunday, at around 12.45 WIB, our team moved to Ploso Jombang,” said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police, Kombes Dirmanto.
Dirmanto said the police then intercepted the car group. However, the car that was ridden by MSAT managed to escape the intercept and entered the Pondok Pesantren area of Majma’al Bahroin Hubbul Wathon Minal Iman Shiddiqiyyah, Losari, Ploso.
In the pursuit process, Kada Dirmanto, one of the cars of the MSAT group fought the police. According to him, one of the cars grabbed a police officer.
“However, when our team moved a car with Nopol S XXXS ZJ. As a result of this incident, our members fell,” he said.
Dirmanto said his party managed to stop the car and several people were taken into custody. Two people who were MSAT followers were secured from the car, while the driver managed to escape. They also found airsoft gun in that car.
“The driver fled, we arrested two other people in the car. We found weapons airsoft gun,” said Dirmanto.
Brimob besieged Islamic boarding school
It didn’t stop there, the joint team then surrounded the Shiddiqiyyah Islamic Boarding School owned by MSAT’s father. Even the Jombang-Lamongan road that crosses the Islamic boarding school is completely closed.
Hundreds of personnel and fully armed Brimob were deployed. The atmosphere around the location was reported to be tense. The police then dispatched negotiators to the pesantren. On the other hand, access to boarding schools is also strictly guarded by MSAT followers.
However, until midnight Sunday, the efforts of the team of negotiators who entered the Islamic boarding school failed.
The Jombang Police Chief, AKBP Nurhidayat, who is also one of the negotiators, admitted that he was having problems. He failed to catch the MSAT that was already on the People’s Wanted List (DPO).
Nurhidayat said the negotiation process did not go as expected, which was carried out in front of hundreds of followers of the kiai.
“We are trying to carry out the arrest of the MSAT suspect, but there are obstacles in the field. And we want to carry out negotiations but the situation does not allow it,” said Nurhidayat.
In a video circulating, MSAT’s father, KH Muhammad Mukhtar Mukthi, was very protective of his son. He asked the Jombang Police Chief AKBP Moh Nurhidayat not to arrest his son, because according to him the sexual harassment case was a family slander.
“For the sake of our common safety, for the sake of the success of Indonesia Raya, this problem is a family problem. For our common safety, for our common good, for the success of Indonesia Raya, this problem of slander is a family problem. For that, go back to your respective places, don’t force yourself to take my son who has been slandered,” MSAT’s dad says on the tape.
Nurhidayat looks unable to move much. He only nodded occasionally. Then hundreds of police personnel, including the Brimob troops from the East Java Police, were pulled back to the headquarters.
For information, MSAT was reported to the Jombang Police on suspicion of molesting an underage woman from Central Java with the LP Number: LPB/392/X/RES/1.24/2019/JATIM/RESJBG. The victim is one of the students or MSAT students at the pesantren. The case was later withdrawn to the East Java Regional Police.
MSAT then sued the East Java Police Chief. He considered his determination as a suspect invalid. He also submitted two pretrials to the Surabaya District Court and the Jombang District Court. However, the pretrial attempt was rejected.
(frd/kid)
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