Bripka Andreas Story: A right eye shot me by balls from a distance of 5 meters

SURABAYA, KOMPAS.com – Bripka Andreas Dwi Anggoro is still lame in one of the hospital wards of Bhayangkara Hospital of East Java Regional Police, Tuesday (27/11/2018). The right eye is always covered with a bandage held by the adhesive.

In Anggrek Room 4, the member of the Lamongan Regional Police Unit was only accompanied by his wife Maya Puspitasari, who accompanied him since he had been treated last week.

Monday (26/11/2018) yesterday, the team of doctors had just opened a stitch on his right eyelid. The scar was hit by a marble bullet fired with the help of a wooden catapult.

"Not bad, but the vision is still unclear.Today, the plan is still being examined by a doctor," said the 35-year-old police officer.

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Bripka Andreas still remembers the time when he sued the attackers at the traffic control posts near the Lamongan Bahari Tourism site in the Paciran district last Tuesday.

At that time, he claimed to be sitting with several security guards, not far from the station's location. Suddenly, there were 2 people who hitchhiked by throwing the glbad until it broke. "I have reflexively chased the aggressor directly with the bike," Andreas said.

Andreas had approached the position of the author and had asked the two to stop. Instead of stopping, the man who was in the boat and who later became known as Eko Ristanto shot Andreas with a slingshot with a marble bullet.

"About 5 meters from me with the shooter, a lot of bullets were fired, all were not hit, some were on my left chest and my right eye," he said.

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Although his right eye was bled with marble bullets, Andreas did not stop chasing the culprits. "In fact, I want to pursue it further and get caught," said Andreas.

His efforts have not been in vain. After traveling about six kilometers in pursuit of the culprits, thanks to the help of the locals, the culprits were finally arrested after Andreas crashed his motorcycle into the motorcycle of his author.

Andreas claimed that what he had done was the obligation of a police officer to ensure the safety of the community. "It's really my job," he admitted.

Radical group

The arrest of the two perpetrators of the attack on the post and the police was long, the article was based on the development and search of the two houses of the perpetrators, the police found objects related to the activities of radical groups.

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One of them is a book written by Aman Abdurahman, leader of Indonesian terrorism, who was sentenced to death in June by the South Jakarta District Court.

"Many books have been confiscated, including one written by Aman Abdurahman and an Afghan hat in black," said Sr. Frans Barung Mangera, public relations officer of the East Java Regional Police.

Safurah Abdurahman's secure book was called Aqidah of the Prophets and Prophets. In addition, the book Sekuntum Rosela Pelipur Lara of Imam Samudera and a book entitled The Last Smile of the Mujahids, which contains a narrative of the course of Amrozi terrorists.

In addition to the books, the items belonging to the seized authors were jackets, motorcycles, Afghan catapult hats and 7 marbles used to attack the Bripka Andreas traffic police.

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The Lamongan Regional Police then delegated the file to the monitoring of detachment 88 of the National Police. The two actors, Eko Ristanto and Mr. Syaif Ali Hamdi, are currently under investigation at the East Java Regional Police Headquarters.

Eko Ristanto, Andreas Bripka's striker with a catapult of bullets, also turned out to have joined the police force. But he was dismissed disrespectfully in 2012 because it was proven that he had shot a teacher of the Qur'an.

In this case, Eko, who at the criminal investigation unit of the Sidoarjo Regional Police, had been sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Sidoarjo District Court. In 2017, he was sentenced to a conditional release.