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Victim’s Voice
“Mum… Don’t receive the ‘peace’ offer…
I’ve done nothing wrong”
Musawab Lubis
Musawab Lubis, 43, goes by the name Ucok. He makes
a living selling nasi goreng in the Deli Serdang area, North
Sumatra. For almost two and a half years he has been
struggling to achieve justice in the name of his son Arby
Syahputra, who died at the age of 19. Arby was a diligent
child, and before he died he used to help his parents with
the nasi goreng business. He also distributed newspapers.
The money he got together he used to open a small kiosk
selling magazines and newspapers, next to the nasi goreng
business. When he had no customers, he helped out with
the food business.
Ucok recaptures the tragic story surrounding Arby’s
death, as told by witnesses who met or saw Arby in the
hours before his untimely death. At the time, 26 March
2002, around 20.30 pm, Arby was taking his friend Andi
berita 9 Sumbogo Kontra (dead s No. in 8/Vlll/2003 the same incident) to his work as night
guard at a PLN office (electricity supplier). Arby left the
toll road bridge from the Medan Estate direction, heading
towards Willem Iskandar Street. It is unclear why, but
Arby’s track was followed by three motorbikes and a
number of cars, one with police signs on it. Shortly, gunfire
could be heard close to the main entrance to the campus
of Medan University.
Hearing the gunfire, several people from the
neighbourhood approached the scene. The personnel were
heard scolding, “You stole a motorbike didn’t you”. The
guards hushed of the people approaching. Arby and Andi
was placed in the back of a car, and the bike was taken
away by a police officer. Before taking off in the car, a
officer was heard shouting “So we need to shoot you for
you to confess”. Several gunshots were heard.
The following day, Ucok’s brother in law reported that
Arby was already in the morgue at the Prinagdi hospital
in Medan. He said he had died after being shot by police.
The sorrow was immediate and great. “What did my son
do wrong, I was thinking, why did the police have to shoot
him. I was asking myself over and over, since I know
that Arby is easily scared, and suffers from epilepsy. What
did he do wrong, why did they have to kill him This
question is still always on my mind.”
His brother in law escorted Ucok heading for the
Medan police station to question the shooting of his son.
At the police station they met with the head of the police
reserve, AKP.Maruli Siahaan. Maruli told them that Arby
had taken part in a violent robbery. Ucok, shocked and
confused, could not reply. They left to go to the Pringadi
hospital. Together with his wife, Ucok brought the corpse
of their beloved son back to the house they rented in
Pasar VII, Tembung, Medan.
Two bullets in the chest
Ucok continues by telling that the body had already
been cleaned at the hospital. Ucok was a bit calmer, and
carefully examined the body of his son. According to
Ucok, the condition of the corpse was not confirming
the story he had heard from AKP.Maruli Siahaan.
According to him, the child had been shot while
committing a robbery. But Ucok saw that his legs had
been shot from the front, not from the back. His chest
had been shot three times, and his eyebrows and eyes
were bruised and cut. He later found out that Andi, Arby’s
friend who was killed in the same incident also died of
two bullets in his chest.
Except from that, other evidence is strange. According
to the police, a motorbike, registered RX King BK 4812
DO was the main evidence. But Ucok knows that his
son was driving a Honda from the seventies at the time.
Ucok started to think that Arby had been forced to
confess theft of a motorbike. After treating the body in
according with tradition, Arby was buried.
Since Ucok had a feeling that the police had in reality
arrested the wrong persons, in early April he and his wife
went to meet with Superintendent Badrodin Haiti
(currently Head of the reserve at the provincial Police in
East Java) and asked for a clarification of what actually
had taken place. They were not received by
Superintendent Badrodin Haiti, who referred them back
to head of the police reserve, AKP.Maruli Siahaan.
Maruli Siahaan said that their son had been accidentally
killed. “My wife shouted, ‘he was not killed by accident,
you shot him’. Then we left”. After this Ucok sent a letter
No.03/V-VI/2004