Mataram – At least 50 workers rallied at Mataram Prosecutor's Office to demand justice following the alleged beating of a colleague by a village official.

"It has been a year since Amaq Gemet was wrongly treated. We promptly reported the case but there has been no clarification to this day and the perpetrator is still at large," rally coordinator Iman Subaiwa said over the weekend.

"We demand to be treated equally before the law even though the victim is a lowly worker," he said.

Amaq Gemet, 54, a resident of West Lombok, was allegedly beaten up in June last year by someone identified as SLM. The beating resulted in Amaq requiring medical attention after sustaining a cut on the face and eye.

"We suspect the prosecutor's office is deliberately stalling with the case because the perpetrator is a public figure in the village who people look up to," Iman said.