Which wife was not sad when
looking back at the love and beautiful life with her
beloved husband? Especially that the husband had
already left her forever now. That's what happened to
Putri Munawaroh, the wife of shaheed (Insha
Allah) Susilo Adib, who was shot by
the Densus 88, on 17th September 2009, in Jebres,
Solo.
The Cries While Reading The
Statement of Defence
That day, Tuesday, 6th July 2010, in the main
courtroom of the PN (district court) of South Jakarta,
Putri Munawaroh herself read the statement of defence
against the tyrannical demands of the prosecutors who
adjudicated her to 8 years imprisonment. The
prosecution team after several trial stated that she
was guilty due to assisting and participating in
terrorism offences by providing facilities to the
perpetrators of terrorism. Putri was wickedly snared
by the Article 13 Letter B Perpu (gvt. regulation to
replace law number...) 1 Year 2002 that have been
enacted into Law No. 75 Year 2003 Article 55 verses 1
to 1 of the Criminal Code.
Putri Munawaroh did not feel the least bit that she
had committed the offences as sought by prosecutors
above, because she was only acting as an obedient and
dutiful wife to her husband. That was what had been
delivered in the reading out of the statement of
defence in the district court of South Jakarta, at
15.00 hour local time.
Wearing a jilbab and veil, Putri Munawaroh
read out her rights which had been tyrannized. Putri
was unable to banish the sadness while remembering her
beloved husband who had been defending her to his last
breath. Putri was occasionally heard sobbing as she
was unable to restrain her grief. Putri remembered her
husband, Susilo Adib. Puteri explained that she and
her husband was a married couple who were living life
based on the Islamic values.
“We lived in ordinariness. My husband was teaching
at the Pondok (Islamic boarding schooled) of
Al Kahfi. I myself was an ordinary house wife. But,
our lives were full of happiness and even more so when
I was declared pregnant with our first baby,”
Putri Munawaroh said in a sob.
Reception Of Putri's Guests
In April 2009, Putri Munawaroh and Susilo Adib rented
a house in Sari Village RT 03/11 Mojosongo, Jebres,
Solo, owned by Sri Indrasari for a period of one year,
for a price of 1.4 millions Rupiahs. Then gradually
they started to receive guests, whom Putri did not
know herself who those guests were. Putri only knew
those guests as ustadzs and she had no
prejudice on them at all.
As a Muslim, Putri felt obliged to receive visitors,
serve and entertain them. Because in Islam, honouring
the guests is a main obligation. Putri did not expect
that those of her guests were the wanted people by the
Indonesian police, who were being sought for the
bombing incidents in Hotels JW Marriott and Ritz
Carlton in Mega Kuningan, Jakarta, last year.
Putri Munawaroh and her husband provided a place to
stay and provided food for them. It was done after the
bombings at the two hotels had taken place. Putri
Munawaroh and her husband were accused of not
reporting to the local RT (neighbourhood association)
concerning the presence of guests who were staying for
2.5 months at their home. She was also accused of
always locking the house each time she was leaving the
house so that people did not know about the presence
of those three fugitives.
Putri Munawaroh denied all those allegations. In her
statement of defence, Putri Munawaroh mentioned that
her action of locking the house when she wanted to go
out was not intended to hide the guests, but so that
their properties could be protected from bad people.
In the end, Putri Munawaroh was arrested in the raid
on 17th September 2009 in Sari Village RT 03/11
Mojosongo, Jebres, Solo. Alhamdulillah,
Puteri Munawaroh was safe as she was protected by her
husband, who heroically shielded here from harm,
despite being shot he was still protecting his beloved
wife and unborn baby. In the end, Putri Munawaroh was
the only suspect who survived and became a living
witness to the very dramatic incident. When Putri was
shot, she was three-months pregnant with the unborn
baby, who has now born healthily and named Ahsan.
In the closing of her statement of defence, Putri
Munawaroh requested from the panel of judges for a
hope as follows :
“I hope that in deciding this case, it contains
the values of truth, honesty and justice, as well as
upholding the moral values towards Allah,” she
said.
May Allah SWT, the Most Just, hear your prayers and
pleads O my sister, Putri Munawaroh, Insha
Allah!
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