DPR Member Urges Police to Arrest All Attackers Who Killed Student in Bantul

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - A member of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), Sarifuddin Sudding, has urged the police to immediately arrest all perpetrators who mobbed a student from Bantul, Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), with initials IDS (16). “This incident is undoubtedly a shared concern. We hope that Law Enforcement Agencies (APH) will arrest all the perpetrators and process them firmly in accordance with applicable provisions,” Sarifuddin told reporters on Friday (24/4/2026). The mobbing that occurred at the end of last weekend resulted in IDS’s death. There are still five suspected perpetrators being hunted by the police. Sudding also assessed that a broader approach is needed towards the issue of violence among young people. “Looking at the fatal violence against the student in Bantul, this must be a concern for all parties that there is a demand for legal handling that can break the pattern of recurring violence among teenagers,” he stated. According to him, the case experienced by IDS shows that the pattern of teenage violence in Indonesia has entered a phase that can no longer be read as spontaneous clashes between individuals. He said that this incident also shows a pattern of collective boldness among young people to commit violence without adequate consideration of legal consequences. Therefore, according to Sudding, the construction of the event must be thoroughly explored. “And what needs to be a concern in cases like this is not only the acceleration of arresting all the perpetrators, but how the legal process is able to read the entire construction of the event,” Sudding added. The construction in question relates to whether there are elements of planning, patterns of communication between perpetrators, patterns of group involvement that have previously appeared in similar conflicts. In addition, law enforcement agencies are also asked to explore whether the action is part of a violence dynamic that has developed earlier in certain social environments. The PDIP politician added that this approach to the construction of the event is important because legal handling often stops at individual perpetrators, without touching the source of the reproduction of that violence itself. “The recurrence of fatal violence cases among students shows the existence of a social space where the threat of law is not yet sufficiently present as a factor in controlling behaviour,” he said. On the other hand, Sarifuddin suspects the possibility that the teenage perpetrators acted in a group because they felt psychologically protected when held accountable.