Think of the Home Raid as Terrorist
PESANGGARAN – Former Head of Pesanggaran Village/District, Susongko, felt unacceptable to the way the police raided his house over the gold waste processing case last Tuesday (30/10). According to Susongko, the raid carried out by the joint officers of the Banyuwangi Police and the Pesanggaran Police was very excessive, for deploying three trucks and five troop cars.
Even, the police's steps to lock the gate and give the police line to his house were also considered very excessive, for making his wife and children unable to enter the house. “I made and built the house before the gold issue, handle gold just like handling terrorists,” said Susongko when contacting this newspaper reporter via cell phone yesterday afternoon.
As a result the gate is locked and there is a police line, their three children cannot go to school. Because, all the uniforms and books are in the house. He mentions, His eldest son is now in high school, and her two other children are still in elementary school (SD).
When the police carried out the raid, they and their mother could only see from the neighboring house. "Now my children can't go to school. Apart from that the uniforms and books were in the house, they are also still in shock to see their house raided like a terrorist,"he said.
For raids that are considered excessive, Susongko will report the incident to President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono, National Commission for Child Protection, National Human Rights Commission, Forestry Minister Zul Kifl i Hasan, and East Java Governor Soekarwo, and National Police Chief Timur Pradopo. "I feel my name has been tarnished,"he said.
Regarding his existence with his wife and children, Susongko still refused to mention. He only said that his youngest child was now sick with fever due to shock but didn't want to be taken for treatment. He also mentioned that his wife and children are still neglected because they don't have a home anymore apart from the one where the police line is now installed. “The clothes we brought were also attached to the body," he said.
As reported yesterday, the house of the former village head of Pesanggaran, Susongko, officers raided the joint Banyuwangi Police and Pesanggaran Police Tuesday afternoon (30/10). The raid, which was carried out by hundreds of police officers, was directly led by the Banyuwangi Deputy Chief of Police, Kompol Agus Widodo, and the Head of Special Police, Kompol Sujarwo.. The luxury house was raided because it was used as a place to cultivate land containing gold from Mount Tumpang Pitu.
Dear, when the raid was carried out, the owner of the house, Susongko, was not in place. The police only found a number of pieces of evidence in the form of a compressor, blower, material waste, and carbon. There is also a sieve, cloth, water pump, plastic tub, 50 sack of ground ready milled, and 4 bobbin machine unit. Meanwhile, The Head of Pesanggaran Police, AKP Supriyadi, when confirmed regarding Susongko's move to report police actions to a number of state officials, was unable to act..
Because, at the same time, he was attending an invitation to a feast at his neighbor's house who was also a former member of the Banyuwangi DPRD, Kondang Surya Ningrat, in Jajag Village, Gambiran District. “Try directly to Mr. Lipur (Head of the Bin Mas Unit of the Pesanggaran Police, red). I was having a party at Pak Kondang's house,Supriyadi said. When confirmed about Susongko's move, Aiptu Lipur admitted that he did not want to go too far.
Everyone has the right to legal protection, so we don't want to welcome or forbid if the person concerned wants to be like that," said Lipur. Clear, continued Lipur, what the police did to Susongko's house had gone through the correct procedures. Even, the local village head and RT and RW officials have been invited to coordinate. Lipur said, before taking decisive action, the police have come well. "We've been trying to knock on the door, but no answer home owner,he said.
Even though there was no answer from inside the house, the police are still patiently waiting. However, around 1,5 hours later, officers were forced to take decisive steps by forcibly opening the locked gate. "We made the forced effort because we had been waiting for more than an hour.
Start at 14.00 we come, and just hit 15.30 let's take decisive action,he explained. After the officer opened the gate, the police suspicion turned out to be true. The house is indeed used to process gold waste. "After the gate we forced open, our suspicion turned out to be true that there was gold waste processing activity in the house,” said Lipur. (radar)
