The story behind the discovery of a man suspected of being a policeman who disappeared because of the Aceh tsunami

ACEH BAND, KOMPAS.com – The suspect of being a member of the Deputy Police Brigadier of the Police (Apbrip) Asep met with 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, Aceh Jaya Regency.

The discovery of the police who disappeared in the 2004 tsunami went viral on social media.

Lizar relayed 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 coming from Lampung in 2014.

“Three days the hospital contacted me to take a RSJ patient who was suspected to be Asep to my house, so I remembered that in 2014 someone claimed that the Brimob family was looking for their son. So I tried to tell one of the Brimob members. that I know here to be traced. That’s what his family is looking for, “Lizar said when confirmed Kompas.com by phone, Thursday (03/18/2021).

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Lizar said that in 2014 he had met five men who came from Lampung in a private car to find his son who disappeared after the tsunami in Aceh Jaya.

They had shown him a photo with physical characteristics of approaching Asep, which was given by the former village head to the RSJ in 2009.

“When a family came looking for their son, a Brimob member disappeared after the 2014 tsunami, I did not know that the patient suspected of being Asep was brought to RSJ by the late Jauhari, the village chief before me, but the family had shown him the photo of the child they were looking for me at that time, “he said.

Still, Lizar said, the Zainal Abidin Mental Hospital in Banda Aceh in 2016 had escorted a patient suspected of being Asep to his village.

However, after all the residents asked him, the patient did not know and chose family in Aceh Jaya, so the patient was taken back to RSJ.

“In 2016, they sent him back to the village but there was no family here, so they took him home. I also did not dare to issue BPJS for patients, for fear of problems,” he said.

Lizar admitted that in 2016 he had sought information to inform the family, but lost contact and did not know how to contact him at the time.

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But three days ago, he was contacted by the hospital to discharge the patient. He also relayed this information to a Brimob member in Aceh Jaya to find out the suspected patient was Asep.

“My goal is that the patient under the name of my town can meet his family. And thank God, I am very grateful that this patient is really Asep, a Brimob member whose family I was looking for six years ago, ”he said.