6 Tewas Akibat Bentrok Rabu Dini Hari, Jokowi Tidak Tolerir Kekerasan
6 Dead in Indonesia Riots; Widodo Says Won`t Tolerate Unrest
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PRESIDEN RI Joko Widodo mengatakan pada Rabu [22/5] bahwa pihak berwenang mengendalikan situasi yang bergejolak di Jakarta setelah enam orang tewas akibat bentrok dengan pendukung Prabowo Subianto pasca pengumuman hasil Pemilu Serentak 2019.
Bentrokan dimulai Selasa malam ketika para pendukung mantan jenderal Prabowo Subianto berusaha memaksa masuk ke kantor pusat Badan Pengawas Pemilu [Bawaslu] dan terus berlanjut sejak itu. Lebih dari dua lusin kendaraan dibakar ketika para perusuh bentrok dengan TNI - Polri, dengan melemparkan batu dan bom molotov kepada polisi yang merespon dengan gas air mata, meriam air dan peluru karet.
Diapit oleh Panglima TNI dan Menko Polhukam, Jokowi mengatakan: "Saya akan bekerja sama dengan siapa pun untuk memajukan negara ini, tetapi saya tidak akan mentolerir siapa pun yang mengganggu keamanan, proses demokrasi dan persatuan bangsa kita yang tercinta."
Prabowo Subianto menolak untuk menerima hasil resmi Pemilu Serentak 17 April 2019 dan sebaliknya menyatakan dirinya sebagai pemenang. KPU pada Selasa mengatakan bahwa Jokowi, memenangkan 55,5% suara, memastikan terpilih kembali untuk periode kedua. Prabowo, mantan menantu Presiden Soeharto juga kalah dari Jokowi pada 2014. Dia empat kali gagal terpilih sebagai wakil presiden maupun presiden sejak Soeharto digulingkan pada 1998.
Rudiantara, menteri teknologi komunikasi dan informasi, mengatakan fitur media sosial termasuk Facebook, Twitter dan WhatsApp akan dibatasi secara sementara untuk mencegah penyebaran berita bohong dan provokasi. Dia mengatakan sistem pesan masih akan berfungsi untuk pesan teks dan suara tetapi foto dan video akan diblokir atau diperlambat.
Kapolri Jenderal Tito Karnavian mengatakan korban tewas dalam kerusuhan itu akibat terkena tembakan atau alat tumpul. Pihak berwenang masih menyelidiki penyebab kematian dan tidak mengesampingkan keterlibatan pihak ketiga yang bertindak sebagai provokator.
"Ada upaya untuk menciptakan martir, menyalahkan pejabat keamanan dengan membangun kemarahan publik," katanya.
Kerusuhan di Jakarta direncanakan dan tidak spontan, menurut polisi. Petugas menemukan ambulans yang penuh dengan batu dan beberapa dari puluhan orang yang ditangkap memiliki amplop uang, kata epala Divisi Humas Polri Irjen Pol Muhammad Iqbal. Banyak dari mereka yang ditangkap ternyata berasal dari luar Jakarta, katanya.
Pemerintah telah mengerahkan sekitar 50.000 polisi dan tentara di Jakarta untuk mengantisipasi protes menyusul hasil pengumuman KPU. Banyak warga menghindari pusat kota Jakarta yang ditutup oleh polisi untuk menutup akses ke kantor Bawaslu dan KPU seperti dikutip Associated Press yang dilansir MailOnline.
INDONESIA'S President Joko Widodo said Wednesday that authorities have the volatile situation in the capital Jakarta under control after six people died in riots by supporters of his rival in last month's presidential election.
The clashes began Tuesday night when supporters of former general Prabowo Subianto tried to force their way into the downtown offices of the election supervisory agency and have continued unabated since then. More than two dozen vehicles were burned as rioters took over neighborhoods in central Jakarta, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police who responded with tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets.
Flanked by the military chief and other top leaders, Widodo said: "I will work together with anyone to advance this country, but I will not tolerate anyone who disrupts the security, democratic processes and unity of our beloved nation."
Subianto, a volatile ultra-nationalist politician, has refused to accept the official results of the April 17 election and instead declared himself the winner. The Election Commission on Tuesday said that Widodo, the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite, had won 55.5% of the vote, securing the moderate technocrat a second term. Subianto, an elite figure from a wealthy family connected to former dictator Suharto, also lost to Widodo in 2014. He has made four unsuccessful bids for the presidency since Suharto was ousted in 1998.
Rudiantara, the communications and information technology minister, said features of social media including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp will be restricted on a temporary basis to prevent the spread of hoaxes and inflammatory content. He said messaging systems will still work for text and voice messages but photos and videos will be blocked or slowed.
National police chief Tito Karnavian said the people who died in the rioting were hit by gunshots or blunt devices. Authorities are still investigating the death causes and are not ruling out the involvement of third parties acting as provocateurs.
"There are attempts to create martyrs, blaming security officials for building public anger," he said.
The rioting in Jakarta was planned and not spontaneous, according to police. Officers found an ambulance filled with stones and some of the dozens of people arrested had envelopes of money, said national police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal. Many of those arrested and come from outside Jakarta, he said.
The government had deployed some 50,000 police and soldiers in Jakarta in anticipation of protests following the official election results. Many residents have left the city and parts of the downtown are closed to traffic with the election supervisory agency and Election Commission barricaded with razor wire.
