EIGHT TARGETS
15. Where is the Soul of Your Journalists, O Press?
The dark night. Seen from a distance, a young man was standing on the corner of the street. The shadow of the streetlight pole covered the young man's face.
A tall and sturdy yet skinny man walked past the corner of the street where the young man was standing.
“Yo, Brother Cousin, did not expect to see you at school. Isn't it why Brother was sent as a spy when I was at that school?”
“Loki, what are you doing here?”
“Hahaha. I thought you were pretending you didn't know me at school. It's also funny to see Brother disguised as a High School boy, especially 1st grade, in elite High School as well. Haha. I really do not think, actually what is in the mind of the superior Brother.” Loki said while laughing out loud to see Fero who in his 20s wearing a high school uniform.
Fero simply fell silent and looked at Loki.
“So, did you get what you were looking for in school?” Ask Loki who is curious about Fero's work at school.
“Not your business."
Fero paused for a moment before continuing his words.
"Oh yeah, there's one thing I want to say. You don't get too close to Kaiser. Seen however he is suspicious.”
“What is this? After disappearing for so many years, after meeting again, Brother actually forbid me to be friends?” Loki then looked at the sinister face of Fero.
“You know that's not what I mean, right? After all, from the age of 15, I was forced to leave home to represent the performance of our family's duty to go to government spying training. And you also know right, after entering the institution until retirement, we are prohibited from contacting family if not get permission?”
Loki then stepped forward towards Fero.
“It's for another affair."
Loki also paused his words.
He continued, "But why did you forbid me from being friends with Kaiser? He's a good boy, you better not bother him!”
“You just don't know what he did for a year and a half before getting into your school. He was officially enrolled in one of the Junior Highs in West Java, but in fact he went to Japan and underwent samurai training there. He also did not have any alibis at the time of the murder case in Sungsin Security.”
Loki's face was shocked by Fero's statement, but quickly calmed down.
“But that doesn't prove at all that Kaiser did. I've known him well for the last 7 months we were together. He's not the kind of person who would do that.” Loki answered, staring at Fero's face.
“Are you sure? You really know all the ins and outs about him?” Fero who was angry at Loki's answer then snapped at Loki while holding both his shoulders and threw him back.
“If you still have doubts. One thing. Do an investigation without prejudice that Kaiser is the culprit. Only then can you find the real culprit. So to me, your existence in this school is a waste.
And also, I don't like that woman named Alicia. See you at school.”
“Wait..” Fero was about to hold Loki who immediately disappeared from his presence, but his intention was undone and Loki disappeared at the end of the road.
***
Today Kaiser looked glum again. She seemed to be smiling on the outside, but I as her best friend knew very well the characteristics of Kaiser when he was moody. Just look at his eyes so empty.
He's been squeezing his pen all day. Those are the characteristics when the feeling is no longer good. How not, the treatment of journalists is increasingly becoming so. Whereas that day when we were at the end of a public shopping mall, she looked very cheerful. Well, but that quickly changed that very day when the plainclothes Police Officer came to us.
What say? Said catching a criminal while staring at Kaiser so? What does it mean after all, Kaiser's tape says that it will kill Aleka. Already said the same Kaiser that it was wrong, still he was insistent too.
After meeting the policeman, it was fortunate that I kept Kaiser company to the station. Who would have thought he would pass out there. Fortunately Dad was quick and picked us up and drove Kaiser to his house. Kaiser's grandfather, father and mother really panicked from it. Just look, now outside this classroom is filled with Kaiser Bodyguard.
It was monday. The first hour of study is sports. We've left class getting ready for sports class.
Not yet had time to go down the building, suddenly there was a noise in our class. Beni, Loki, and Kaiser immediately went back to class. Inevitably, I also went with them.
“Ah, release!”
“Hey, you want to still be pretentious after being caught doing this lowly deed. No sister no brother, likes to bully people. Genes are awesome yes.”
Apparently what made the commotion was Alicia who seemed to be caught by Ratih doing evil deeds.
I also joined the scene. How shocked I was to find a red inscription on Kaiser's desk saying,
'BASIC KILLER, YOU DIE'
it was apparently Alicia's actions.
Naturally Ratih was angry because all this time we class 1 class general majors really hate the act of bullying like that. And everything seemed more complicated because this was also seen by Kaiser.
“Kaiser?” Ratih hesitantly called out to Kaiser.
It seems that Ratih is keeping Kaiser feeling so. I saw her, Kaiser just smiled kindly, saying, “It's okay, I'm fine."
She said she was fine, but her hands were trembling. Kaiser tells Loki to help him report the incident to the school so that Alicia is responsible for his actions while Kaiser asks for permission to come out for a while.
The worried me followed behind Kaiser. And how shocked I was, in the hallway, once again Kaiser fell unconscious. How much more heavy the burden that the weak back had to bear was due to false rumors about him.
Kaiser while being shipped by his bodyguards to the UKS. I decided to follow and accompany Kaiser to the UKS out of concern. I also missed hours of exercise.
I was silent alone in the UKS room looking at the helpless face of Kaiser who was fast asleep. That's where I decided to do something bigger for my best friend.
I consulted my opinion with my classmates. Unexpectedly, no one opposed my opinion. Especially Ratih, he is very supportive and even willing to become the organizing committee.
Such was the group to protest the brutality of the press in verbally abusing one of the students in our class.
We also immediately take care of all permits from the school to start our action. Unexpectedly, we easily obtained permission from the teachers and principals.
Apparently the teachers including the headmaster also felt pity for the lopsided news that had befallen Kaiser all along.
Thus, after the break after the sixth hour, we asked for permission to go home early to run our demo. Beyond a doubt, thanks to Ratih and the gang who actively contact other class friends including upperclassmen, almost all class 1 class general majors, are, including 2nd and 3rd grade IPA and IPS majors gathered to carry out the demo.
In the crowd were also present Kak Agni and Kak Zion. That afternoon until 5pm, we demonstrated peacefully in front of the NTV News building demanding the unprofessionality of the reporters in concluding a news story without being preceded by an official statement by the police.
We also actively spread our actions through social media and the internet. Hope that in the end, people will be sympathetic to us.
But an unexpected thing aired on TV the next day. Thanks to the actions of one of the celebrities who posted on his insyafgram about the small dowry given by her husband which was only 3 kilograms of gold, 3 hectares of land, land, and the 1 billion dollars of cash while selfie in the presence of gold, land certificates, and cash while beleaguered, media attention so focused on the viral insyafstory suddenly.
The media also became focused on discussing the luxurious lifestyle of celebrities so that in the end our news demanding justice which only aired a few minutes on 4 TV stations except NTV, sunk and forgotten.
I was disappointed because of that. However, it turns out there are still some segments on DTV and Queen TV that discuss us. I think that's enough. Thanks in part to the news, media attention to Kaiser was also diverted.