Parliamentary Commission Pushes Police to Apprehend Intellectual Perpetrators of Acid Attack Terror

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s Parliamentary Commission III has urged the National Police to apprehend the intellectual perpetrators behind an acid attack targeting Andrie Yunus, Deputy Coordinator of the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS).

Commission III Chair Habibirokhman emphasised that the acid attack on Yunus should not be regarded as ordinary criminal conduct.

“This incident is a serious matter. We demand the National Police immediately identify the perpetrators, including those who planned and the intellectual actors behind this incident,” Habibirokhman stated at the Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta on Monday, 16 March 2026.

He stressed that the matter cannot conclude with the arrest of the perpetrators, but must extend to the intellectual actor who ordered the attack.

“Parliamentary Commission III calls on the National Police to thoroughly investigate the acid attack case against Andrie Yunus swiftly, transparently and professionally, and immediately identify and arrest all perpetrators, whether those who planned, ordered, executed or assisted in accordance with the law,” Habibirokhman asserted.

Habibirokhman emphasised that the acid attack obstructs the government’s human rights protection agenda.

“Parliamentary Commission III affirms that the acid attack against Andrie Yunus represents a form of resistance to the Prabowo administration’s commitment to maximise the protection, advancement and fulfilment of human rights in support of the legislative functions mandated to Parliament as outlined in the Asta Cita,” Habibirokhman stated.

President Prabowo requested that the investigation be conducted professionally, transparently and with emphasis on scientific crime investigation.

National Police Chief Sigit affirmed his commitment to implementing Prabowo’s directive by announcing the establishment of a public complaint centre to gather information related to the incident.

“Both from the complaint centre and from the Police Public Relations Office, we ask them to provide information as this has received serious attention from the President,” Sigit stated at Surabaya’s Gubeng main railway station in East Java on Sunday, 15 March 2026.

“We will provide protection guarantees,” Sigit added.