OMPUNG LINDA

92-year-old woman jailed for felled durian tree

the son and nephews were each sentenced to four months and ten days in jail. On January 29, Linda was sentenced to one month and 14 days in jail, to be served under city arrest status. The judge who convicted her is Marshal Tarigan. The state prosecutor who demanded a 92-year-old woman be jailed over a family dispute is Erthy Simbolon. There have been similar cases of elderly, illiterate women jailed for minor offenses. of Linda, declared the ten-year-old tree was his property. He demanded hundreds of millions of rupiah in compensation. On March 1, 2017, he reported Linda, her son and her five nephews to police, accusing them of destroying his property. On September 19, 2017, the son and nephews were arrested and jailed. They and Linda went on trial at Balige District Court on December 20, 2017. Linda had to be carried to the courthouse by her grandson, after taking a boat ride of more than two hours across Lake Toba. On January 23, 2018, Saulina Boru Sitorus, better known as Ompung Linda, was born in North Sumatra’s Toba Samosir region in 1926. In December 2016, she decided to renovate and expand a monument to her late husband and ancestors at a cemetery used by Batak people in Toba Samosir district. The owner of the land, Kardi Sitorus, granted permission for the work. When Linda and her relatives mentioned a durian tree was in the way, Kardi said they could cut it down. After it was felled, a local man named Japaya Sitorus (70), who is also a relative