Ternate Notary Writes 'Love Letter' to National Police Chief Alleging Criminalisation
Dawn had barely passed when the aircraft carrying Lily Masita Tomasoa took off from Sultan Babullah Airport in Ternate, bound for Jakarta, on 7 July 2026. Amid the hum of the engines, the mother of one opened her bag, took out her laptop, and began to write.
At the top of the page, she wrote a single name: General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Chief of the Indonesian National Police.
Through the letter she wrote, Lily believed this was her final endeavour after more than a year of undergoing a legal process which, in her conviction, had placed her as a suspect for an act she never committed.
She addressed similar letters to the Head of the National Police Criminal Investigation Department (Kabareskrim) and the Head of the Professional Conduct Division (Kadiv Propam). The contents were simple, yet laden with hope. She asked the police leadership to kindly review the case that had ensnared her — not merely from the investigation file, but from the series of events which from the outset she believed was riddled with irregularities.
Lily is neither a businesswoman, an official, nor a politician. She is a notary practising in Ternate City, North Maluku. In her letter, Lily described what she experienced as a form of miscarriage of law enforcement.
She characterised it as a law enforcement process that, under universally accepted qualifications, can be used to prosecute a person for an act they did not commit — the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime he did not commit.
The criminalisation was no small matter. It came from law enforcement officials whose office shares the same building complex as the National Police Chief — investigators from Sub-Directorate III of the Special Economic Crimes Directorate at the National Police Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim), who ought to have standard operating procedures with a zero-tolerance category towards unprofessional conduct in inquiry and investigation activities.
“I only ask the National Police Chief, the Head of Bareskrim, and the Head of Propam to kindly spare a little time to read and understand what I have experienced,” she wrote. That plea opened a story that began with a corporate deed.
On 9 April 2025, Lily completed Deed No. 01, a Statement of Board Resolution of PT Alam Raya Abadi (PT ARA), at the request of Gao Guang Ming, also known as Michel, and the relevant parties. Yet only two days later, on 11 April 2025, a man named Christian Jaya reported her to the Integrated Police Service Centre (SPKT) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Department.