TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian National Police that it would investigate an incident where a number of Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) activists were besieged by a group of people at a villa in Sanur, Bali on Saturday, November 12, 2022.

Head of the Bali Police Chief Senior Commissioner Stefanus Satake Bayu, said that the police are currently looking into the incident.

"We will cross-check what happened and investigate the incident," said Bayu on Monday, November 14, 2022. Bayu asserted that the incident is beyond the control of the police. He said that the police had never issued an order to disband the YLBHI event nor were they involved in the incident.

This incident occurred on Saturday, November 12. At that time, the central board and regional YLBHI leaders were holding an internal meeting in a rented villa after attending a number of forums in Bali.

YLBHI Chairperson Muhammad Isnur said that the people who came to them asserted that a public restriction had been set in place in the villa where members stayed, it is said the restriction effectively bans activities ahead of the G20 summit.

"Then we were told to make a statement that our gathering has nothing to do with the G20," Isnur said on Sunday, November 13, 2022.

Not long after the incident, Isnur said that the villa where they stayed was visited by dozens of people, which he suspects are officers who are not in uniform. "They then forcefully searched our laptops and cellphones which we refused because it was against the law," he said.

MIRZA BAGASKARA

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