Aceh PPP Responds After Its Cadre and Nagan Raya DPRK Speaker Is Caught in Raid

The Aceh Regional Leadership Council of the United Development Party (PPP) has responded to the raid involving its cadre MRR, who serves as speaker of the Nagan Raya Regional House of Representatives (DPRK). MRR was reportedly found in a room at his official residence with a woman identified by the initials NA.

Aceh PPP Regional Council chairman Amiruddin said he was aware of the reports, but the party had so far received no formal report.

“I have heard the news circulating in the media. However, so far I have not received an official report,” Amiruddin said when contacted on Thursday (29 October).

Amiruddin stressed that the Aceh PPP council would not shield or cover up any breach of ethics by its cadre, who also heads the party’s Nagan Raya branch.

Nevertheless, he said that, at this stage, the incident appeared to concern the individual’s private life.

“The regional council will not protect him or turn a blind eye to the conduct. In my view, it is a personal matter, within each individual’s private sphere, and concerns an individual,” he said.

The party will investigate and review the chronology of events, while upholding the presumption of innocence because the case remains an allegation. It also said it would inform PPP’s national leadership.

“If he is proven guilty, then he is at fault. But this is still an allegation,” Amiruddin said.

Earlier, MRR’s wife reported an alleged affair to the police. MRR was subsequently found in a room at his official residence with NA.

Nagan Raya Police Criminal Investigation Unit chief AKP Muhammad Rizal confirmed the raid. The woman, identified as NA and described as the Nagan Raya DPRK speaker’s alleged affair partner, is from Banda Aceh.

“NA, the alleged affair partner, has been taken to the Women and Children’s Protection Unit of the Criminal Investigation Unit and is currently being questioned,” Rizal told CNNIndonesia.com on Thursday (29 October).