Perjalanan Kasus Kekerasan Seksual pada Santri oleh Anak Kiai di Jombang Berawal Sejak 2017

JOMBANG, KOMPAS.TV - The suspect in the sexual assault case against a student in Jombang, East Java, Muhammad Subchi Azal Tsani, has yet to be arrested by the police. He was named a suspect in 2019. He subsequently filed two pretrial motions, but these were rejected. While Subchi's case file has been declared complete (P21), he has never attended a police summons, and Subchi has been a fugitive since last January. Police attempts to apprehend the suspect have continued to fail. A joint team from the East Java Regional Police and the Jombang Police, along with the Jombang Military District Command (Kodim 0814), attempted to arrest the suspect at the Shiddiqiyyah Islamic Boarding School in Losari Village, Ploso District, Jombang. However, hundreds of students obstructed and guarded the school. Previously, an arrest attempt by police in Ploso, Jombang, also failed due to obstruction by several people guarding the suspect. The suspect managed to escape. Not only was he obstructed by the students, but Kiai Haji Mukhtar Mu'thi, the caretaker of the Shiddiqiyyah Islamic Boarding School, also refused to surrender when Jombang Police Chief, Akbp Nurhidayat, asked the suspect, Mukhtar Mu'thi's son, to surrender. The father argued that the case against his son was slander and a family matter. The Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU), Kiai Haji Fahrur Rozi, responded to the delay in arresting the suspect. He hoped the suspect would cooperate. Muhammad Subchi Azal Tsani was reported to the police on suspicion of indecent assault on October 29, 2019. He was then named a suspect in November 2019. Subchi was charged with rape and indecent assault under Article 285 or Article 294 paragraph 2 of the Indonesian Criminal Code, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison. This article can be viewed at: https://www.kompas.tv/article/306818/...