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he South Jakarta Police will summon on Wednesday a 47-year-old resident of Cipulir, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, who was reported by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) for allegedly abusing her 12-year-old son.

Detective chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Audie Latuheru said the police would question the woman after receiving her son'€™s medical examination results, which were expected to be issued in two days from Pertamina Central hospital (RSPP).

'€œWe cannot yet determine whether the wounds were from abuse or self-inflicted by the boy, whom his mother claims is hyperactive. Let the medical examination speak,'€ Audie said on Saturday after talking to the mother, initials SR, at her house, accompanied by the South Jakarta Police'€™s Women and Children Protection (PPA) unit, KPAI, and NGO the Family Number One (FNO) Community.

Audie said he had observed several scars on the boy'€™s body, including three scratches on the left hand, right cheek and under the left ear, as well a swelling on the right cheek.

PPA unit head Adj. Comr. Nunu Supadmi showed a photo of the boy to reporters, showing a scar on his right that apparently resulted from a serious injury.

Audie said the boy had accused his mother of attacking him with a saw and throwing a bowl at him, but the police declined to confirm that.

KPAI previously released a message on Friday stating that a mother in South Jakarta had attacked her son with a saw after the commission got no response from the South Jakarta Police, to whom they reported the woman on Monday.

A scar on the boy'€™s arm might have been caused by a saw, police said.

KPAI claimed that the police had been slow to respond because of the woman'€™s alleged connections to the military.

KPAI secretary-general Erlinda said the commission had reported the woman after receiving a report from a neighbor in whose house the child had sought refuge, claiming his mother had abused him.

Investigators, Audie added, had interviewed three witnesses last Wednesday, comprising the 37-year-old neighbor, 48-year-old Zainuddin, the neighborhood unit head, and the boy himself, who was accompanied by a psychologist.

Audie said the mother, a divorcee, lived with her eldest daughter, 14, and youngest son, 6. SR claims never to have abused her son.

'€œThe mother said the boy was hyperactive and naughty. The psychologist who is handling him right now also says that,'€ Audie said.

The two other children were still with their mother and looked fine, playing and joking in the house during the police visit, Audie added.(foy)