SUKOHARJO \u2014 Zainal Abidin Petir, a member of the Law and Human Rights\nCommission of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Central Java, has\ngathered accounts of the raid and search at Hamalatul Quran Islamic\nBoarding School in Sukoharjo regency. He said the police acted on\ninaccurate intelligence.<\/p>\n
Zainal said the Central Java MUI had tasked him with collecting\ndetailed information about the raid to establish what happened at the\nschool, located in Dukuh Laban, Mojolaban district, Sukoharjo.<\/p>\n
He travelled to Sukoharjo and gathered accounts from several parties,\nincluding the school\u2019s management, local residents and investigators. He\nlearned that the raid was part of an investigation into the burning of a\nnoodle and pork restaurant in Parangjoro village, Grogol district,\nSukoharjo. The restaurant was set alight in the early hours of 12\nSeptember 2026.<\/p>\n
In connection with the case, the Central Java Police and Sukoharjo\nPolice arrested a suspect identified by the initial S. He was detained\nat a house in Purbayan village, Baki district, Sukoharjo, on 19 October\n2026. Based on information from S, police obtained the identity of\nanother suspected arsonist, a man identified by the initial I.<\/p>\n
Zainal said that, as the investigation developed, the Central Java\nPolice and Sukoharjo Police raided and searched Hamalatul Quran Islamic\nBoarding School in the early hours of 27 October 2026. According to the\naccounts he collected, dozens of Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob) personnel\ntook part. \u201cThe Central Java Police Chief was already there at the time.\nHe had arrived during the night, before the raid,\u201d Zainal said in an\ninterview on Tuesday, 3 November 2026.<\/p>\n
Police did not find I at the school after carrying out the raid. \u201cI\nsuspect the Central Java Police Chief received information that was not\nvalid,\u201d Zainal said.<\/p>\n
Zainal said the information he had gathered indicated that police had\nmonitored the school before the raid. On one occasion, the father of a\nstudent visited the premises carrying a rucksack. \u201cThey thought the man\nwas I, the informant [sic?]\u2014the person they were looking for. They\nthought I had entered the boarding school, when it was actually a\nstudent\u2019s parent,\u201d Zainal said.<\/p>\n
According to Zainal, the student\u2019s father had only stopped by\nbriefly. All the students, teachers and caretakers at the school are\nwomen. However, he also learned that one of the school\u2019s female\nreligious teachers is I\u2019s wife. \u201cSo it seems the Police Chief received\ninformation that I, who is still on the wanted list, was at Hamalatul\nQuran Islamic Boarding School. But I had not been there for a long time\nand had never gone there,\u201d he said.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/central-java-mui-outlines-timeline-behind-islamic-boarding-school-raid-citing-intelligence-lapse-1793713938", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }