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The police in Medan, North Sumatra, have arrested a man for allegedly ripping a page from the Quran after stealing it from Al-Mahsum Mosque in the city last month. The suspect, identified only as DIM, 44, a Medan resident, was arrested as he walked around the mosque on Thursday.Medan Police chief Sr. Comr. Jhony Edizzon said he suspected the perpetrator was about to repeat his action before the police caught him.“The suspect wasn’t acting alone. He was part of a group who incited him to commit the offense. We are currently hunting that group,” Jhonny said on Thursday. He added that the group was believed to have paid DIM Rp 700,000 (US$51.10) as a reward. The money has been confiscated by the police, along with a ripped page from the Quran and a mobile phone. According to Jhonny, the police arrested the suspect after watching a CCTV surveillance video recording from the mosque dated Jan. 31. The suspect was praying at the mosque at that time, and stole the Quran from a cabinet, ripped out a page and pocketed it. The suspect proceeded to walk to the toilet, shredded the page into four pieces, and threw it onto the street. The police claimed that the suspect was aware of what he was doing. “He is mentally healthy,” Jhonny said, adding that the suspect worked as a construction worker.DIM will be charged under Article 156 of the Criminal Code and faces five years’ imprisonment if found guilty. “Do not ever try to disturb the peace in Medan city. We have no room for terrorists in this country, we will take action against them,” Jhonny said. Zulkarnaen Sitanggang, an Indonesian Ulema Council member in Medan, asked the police to resolve the case as soon as possible.“We want the police to take care of the Quran case because it makes Muslims uneasy,” Zulkarnaen said. (dpk) Topics :
In celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, some 200 people paraded in Yogyakarta to protest against sexual violence against women in general – and at universities in their own city in particular.“We need to keep our eyes on the issue and insist [that the authorities] eradicate sexual violence at education institutions, especially by creating a policy on handling sexual violence cases that is in favor for survivors,” Felice Dorothy Arus of IWD’s local committee told The Jakarta Post on Sunday. Read also: ‘I’m a rape victim’: Mother pens heartbreaking letter left with abandoned babyThe parade began at the Abu Bakar Ali parking lot and proceeded to Jl. Malioboro to end at the Zero Kilometer landmark. The protestors carried signs to raise awareness on sexual violence with messages such as, “get rid of sex offender lecturers”, “how come pervert lecturers are groomed by the campus,” and “sexual violence on campus is more dangerous than the coronavirus”.Police officers checked the signs, saying this was necessary to avoid posters with messages “against nationalism”. In her speech, Fatonah, who studies at an Islamic university in Yogyakarta, said at least eight cases had happened on her campus but the suspected perpetrator, a lecturer, was still teaching.“If the campus fails to make us feel safe, how can we actually get a proper education?” she said at the Zero Kilometer Point.Her fellow student Wulan claimed a male lecturer and a senior-level male student often requested that female students have sex with them.“Let’s fight the perverted lecturers and senior-level students,” she said.Read also: Hundreds rally in Jakarta to protest violence against women on International Women’s DayMeanwhile, Melia Nurul Fajriah of Legal Aid Yogyakarta (LBH Yogyakarta) strongly encouraged students to fight against violence.On campuses of higher education institutions, victims of sexual violence were often given pressure to remain silent, instead of support, she said in her speech.“The sexual predators are lecturers, and many times they are not reported to police,” said Melia.Last week, a lecturer at Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) was reported to the university’s authorities for sex offenses against female students.UMY rector Gunawan Budiyanto, however, dismissed the case in a quick fix, saying the lecturer had only violated the university’s code of ethics against violence.“The problematic lecturer was dismissed from his position on March 3,” Gunawan said in a press release on Friday.Besides fighting against sexual violence at educational institutions, the 2020 IWD movement also demands that lawmakers pass the sexual violence bill, that support is given to oppressed women in Papua and that an omnibus bill on job creation is scrapped, among other issues. (gis)
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