A man who set out to commit a sexual crime will not face charges, police said, as he failed to record his victim bathing at a water park in Ancol, North Jakarta.
Police said an employee of a food vendor at Atlantis Water Adventures in the waterfront complex, who is identified by his initials SA (22), snuck into the female bathroom on the afternoon of April 9. There, he took out his phone with the intention of filming a female visitor, AP (31), who was showering in one of the cubicles.
Thankfully, AP noticed SA’s phone peering above the cubicle from the corner of her eye and screamed for help before he managed to obtain footage of her naked.
“She immediately notified security guards and police,” North Jakarta Police Crime Investigation Unit Chief Iverson Manossoh told reporters yesterday.
Police soon apprehended SA and found no footage of AP naked in his phone.
Though Indonesia just last year ratified its long-awaited Sexual Crimes Law designed to enforce harsher punishments on perpetrators, police said that SA will not be charged as there was no video evidence of his crime. Essentially, he would have had to be successful in filming AP naked to be charged.
Instead, SA is now required to check in for counseling with the Social Agency.
Curiously, in her version of events that she posted on Instagram, AP said that she had at one point obtained SA’s phone and found a video of another victim that he filmed showering for two minutes in March. The authorities have yet to address this aspect of the case.
Meanwhile, Ancol management apologized for the incident but was keen to stress that SA was neither directly employed by Atlantis nor the waterfront complex. However, the management said that SA has been fired from his job and has been blacklisted from entering Ancol.
