/data/photo/2021/03/18/6053121b4c399.jpg "The story behind the discovery of a man suspected of being a police officer who disappeared because of the Aceh Tsunami")
BANDA ACEH, KOMPAS.com – The man who is suspected of being a member of the Police Adjunct Police Brigadier (Apbrip) Asep met his colleague from Brimob Polda Aceh at the Zainal Abidin Mental Hospital (RSJ) Banda Aceh thanks to a report by Lizar L, head of Pajar Village, Darul Hikmah District, District Aceh Jaya.
The discovery of the police who went missing in the 2004 tsunami went viral on social media.
Lizar conveyed information to Brimob members a few days ago that there was a patient at the Banda Aceh Regional Hospital whose characteristics the Brimob family had been looking for who came from Lampung in 2014.
“Three days the hospital contacted me to take a RSJ patient who was suspected of being Asep to my place, so I remembered that in 2014 someone claimed that the Brimob family was looking for their child. So try conveying it to one of the Brimob members that I know here to be traced, maybe it was a patient. that’s what his family is looking for, “said Lizar when he was confirmed Kompas.com by phone, Thursday (18/03/2021).
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Lizar said, in 2014, he had met five men who came from Lampung in a private car to find their son who went missing after the tsunami to Aceh Jaya.
They had shown him a photo with physical characteristics of approaching Asep, who was delivered by the previous village head to the RSJ in 2009.
“When a family came looking for their child, a Brimob member went missing after the 2014 tsunami, I didn’t know that the patient who was suspected of being Asep was taken to RSJ by the late Jauhari, the village head before me, but the family had shown him the photo of the child they were looking for. me at that time, “he said.
Still said Lizar, the Zainal Abidin Mental Hospital Banda Aceh in 2016 had escorted a patient suspected of being Asep to his village.
However, after being asked by all residents, the patient did not know and chose family in Aceh Jaya, so the patient was brought back to the RSJ.
“In 2016, he was sent back to the village but there was no family here, so he was taken home. I also did not dare to issue a BPJS for a patient, for fear of problems,” he said.
Lizar admitted that in 2016, he had sought information to inform the family, but lost contact and he did not know how to contact him at that time.
But three days ago, he was contacted by the hospital for the patient’s discharge. He also conveyed this information to a member of Brimob in Aceh Jaya to find out the patient who was suspected of being Asep.
“My goal is that the patient under the name of my village can meet his family. And, thank God I am very grateful that this patient is really Asep, a member of Brimob whose family was looking for six years ago,” he said.
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