Suspects in latest STPDN violence freed<\/p>\n
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung<\/p>\n
Police released on Wednesday two students who were officially
\nnamed suspects in the latest bullying incident at the Institute
\nof Public Administration (STPDN) in Sumedang, West Java.<\/p>\n
Both suspects, Nurmansyah Putra, 21, and Imam Suhaeri, 21,
\nwere only ordered to report to Jatinangor Police, some 20
\nkilometers from their campus, once a day.<\/p>\n
Sumedang Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yoyok Subagiyono said the
\nsuspension of their detention was to allow the suspects to take
\npart in a semester examination at the school.<\/p>\n
However, Yoyok did not say if the two second-year students,
\nfrom Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, would be detained again or not
\nafter the examination.<\/p>\n
Nurmansyah and Imam had been held for two days since Monday
\nfor intensive interrogation on charges of bullying younger
\nstudent Ichsan Suheri, 19, on Oct. 16, on campus.<\/p>\n
\"The two suspects have confessed to beating the victim and
\nordering him to lift up a 38-kilogram barbell with one hand. As
\nhe was too weak to hold the weight up, the barbell fell on his
\nhead,\" Yoyok said.<\/p>\n
Yoyok said the suspects claimed they ordered Ichsan to carry
\nthe 38-kilogram barbell merely for fun, with no intention of
\ntraining him.<\/p>\n
Based on statements by 60 Acehnese colleagues, the police
\nconcluded that the incident was not a \"collective crime\" as it
\nwas only perpetrated by the two senior students, he said.<\/p>\n
Doctors, who treated Ichsan at the Al-Islam hospital in
\nBandung, said the violence caused Ichsan to suffer psychological
\ntrauma and needed a two-month counseling session to recover.<\/p>\n
His father, Hanafiah who is the West Langsa district military
\nchief in Aceh, took Ichsan home to Aceh for counseling on
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
Yoyok said Nurmansyah and Imam could face a maximum of one-
\nyear jail term for violating Article 352 of the Criminal Code on
\nminor bullying and Article 335 on offensive act.<\/p>\n
The bullying was the latest violence to rock the STPDN known
\nfor its reputation to impose military-style discipline on its
\nstudents.<\/p>\n
Last year, the institute which is run by the Ministry of Home
\nAffairs, made headlines after a national private television aired
\nfootage of brutality on the campus after the death of Wahyu
\nHidayat, 20, who was beaten by a group of 20 seniors.<\/p>\n
More than 10 students were jailed over the incident. Three
\nyears ago, another student Erie Rakhman died after being beaten
\nby seniors.<\/p>\n
STPDN head I Nyoman Sumaryadi said the school was collecting
\ninformation to prepare academic punishment for both Nurmansyah
\nand Imam charged with the latest incident.<\/p>\n
Citing an instruction on student relationships at STPDN issued
\nby the home affairs minister in 2003, those involved in fatal
\nviolence must be expelled from the institute.<\/p>\n
But students found guilty of a minor crime would only get
\ntheir scores reduced or ranks lowered, he said.<\/p>\n
However, it was not clear why Yayan Sofiyan, 20, Dadang
\nHadisurya, 21, and Hendi Setiyadi, 21 -- all discharged from
\nschool in September 2003 over the death of Wahyu, were allowed to
\nresume studies there.<\/p>\n
Atong Effendi, 62, the father of Erie, once sued the STPDN for
\nreaccepting seven students who had been expelled from the school
\nover the death of his son.<\/p>",
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