Jayapura. Three officers from the Jayapura Police have been jailed for 21 days for repeatedly forcing a female detainee to perform oral sex over a three-month period.
Papua Police Chief Insp. Gen. Bekto Suprapto confirmed on Sunday that the incidents had taken place at the Jayapura Police’s detention center.
“I’ve checked with the Jayapura Police and was told that the three officers in question have been disciplined,” he said. “They’ve been ordered to serve 21 days in jail and have had their promotions delayed.”
The prisoner, identified only as Bunga and now being held at Abepura Penitentiary, told the Jakarta Globe that the incidents had occurred between November and January when she was being held for illegal gambling.
She said the forced sex acts started toward the end of November, when one of the perpetrators, identified as First Brig. C., brought her from her cell to his desk and offered her an alcoholic drink.
“I told him I didn’t drink, but he forced me to so I had two glasses,” Bunga said. “I started getting woozy so I went back to my cell and passed out.”
She said that when she woke up the next day, she couldn’t remember what had happened. When she asked the other detainees in the cell, they only laughed at her.
Several days later, she said, C. came to her cell while everyone was asleep and demanded that she perform oral sex him.
“It happened so suddenly, I was sitting in the cell and he showed up wanting me to ‘karaoke’ him,” Bunga said, adding that afterward he returned to his desk.
She said C. did this several more times over the next month, and she also performed oral sex on two other officers, Second Brig. S. and Brig. A.
“With A., we were actually dating,” she said. “He needed someone to rant to about being transferred from the intelligence division.”
An anonymous police source has identified C. as Satrio, S. as Salman, and A. as S.M. Agustin.
The incidents came to light in January when Bunga, in a delirious state after overdosing on diet pills, revealed what had happened.
She said investigators from internal affairs then began probing the case.
Matias Murib, deputy head of the provincial branch of the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM), said the incidents were a clear violation of human dignity.
“All detainees must have their rights respected, even though they may have committed a crime,” he said.