Being grilled for five hours, Atiqah refuses to comment

Atiqah Hasiholan was questioned as witness for her mother, Ratna Sarumpaet.

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Daughter of activist Ratna Sarumpaet, Atiqah Hasiholan was questioned for almost five hours by Jakarta Police related to her mother hoax (fake news) case. However, she refused to answer questions from medias related to the interrogation.

Atiqah left investigation room at 1.28 WIB (Indonesia West Standard Time). She was accompanied by her lawyer, who also Ratna’s lawyer, Insank Nasrudin.

She refused to answer any question from medias and occasionally threw a smile. According to her lawyer, Atiqah got 16 questions from investigators.

“16 questions about her mother case, only about that and more about relationship between daughter and mother,” said Insank on Wednesday (Oct 24).

Insank said he did not know whether Atiqah will be summoned again or not. He said that Atiqah did not get a lot of questions from investigators. Earlier, the other Ratna’s child, namely Fathom Saulina was also questioned by investigators.

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Ratna case started when she who was one of spokepersons of Prabowo-Sandiaga campaign team decided to have cosmetic surgery on Sept 21, without any consent of her families. The next day, a picture of her with swollen face circulated on social media. To her families, she claimed it was a result of an assault happened in Bandung, West Java.

She kept her secret for a week. Ratna also hide the truth from her politician friends, including Amien Rais, Prabowo Subianto, and Fadli Zon. On Oct 2, Fadli tweeted about the assault and it catched public attention.

Later that night, Ratna met Prabowo and his national campaign team to clarified about the incident. Ratna did not tell the truth yet. Prabowo then stood for her, saying he would met national police chief to discuss the case.

According to chairwoman of the Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno campaign team, Nanik S. Deyang, the incident had taken place on Sept 21, near Husein Sastranegara International Airport. However, on Oct 3, police found out that Ratna had not been in Bandung that day, but at Jakarta hospital specializing in cosmetic surgery.

Ratna then admitted to have lied. She said pictures of her swollen eyes that went viral were the result of liposuction and apologized to Prabowo and public for her deception.

Jakarta Police arrested Ratna when she was about to take a flight to Chile at Soekarno Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten, to attend international playwrights conference on Oct 4. She was named as a suspect under Article 14 Law No. 1/1946 on criminal law regulations and Article 28 juncto Article 45 Law No. 11/2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE).

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