Police reveal reason why bombs discovered<\/p>\n
By Yogita Tahil Ramani<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): It was God's hand that guided police to Elize
\nMaria Tuwahatu, an alleged acquaintance of fugitive Hutomo
\n\"Tommy\" Mandala Putra who was arrested with three bombs in her
\npossession at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) on Friday, a
\npolice detective has claimed.<\/p>\n
\"This (arrest) would not have happened without God's guidance.
\nHe probably acted via Ki Joko Bodo,\" East Jakarta Police's chief
\nof detectives, Adj. Comr. Agus Irianto, told The Jakarta Post on
\nSunday.<\/p>\n
Elize's arrest was the result of a tip by a 38-year-old
\npsychic identified as Agung Yulianto, better known as Ki Joko
\nBodo.<\/p>\n
Joko, who the suspect heard of from a magazine, was asked by
\nElize, alias Baby, 33, to plant the three bombs, Agus said.<\/p>\n
The officer said that after being contacted by Elize, Joko
\nwent to the East Jakarta Police on Wednesday and told them Tommy
\nhad targeted for death Attorney General Marzuki Darusman and
\nMinister of Industry and Trade Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.<\/p>\n
\"Joko told me that he was an activist in 1983 in Yogyakarta.
\nOne day some officers from a certain command arrived at his house
\nand tortured him, particularly damaging his legs. He still has
\nthe marks.<\/p>\n
\"Joko believes that those officers were sent by the family of
\nformer president Soeharto to intimidate him physically. His elder
\nbrother was killed ... and the body has never been found. It is
\nhis belief that the Cendana family (the Soehartos) was behind
\nthis. He cried when he told me this story,\" Agus said.<\/p>\n
Agus said Elize knew nothing of Joko's past. \"She just picked
\nJoko's name out of a mystery magazine ... she had no idea
\nwhatsoever that Joko, who she handpicked to plant the bombs at
\nbuildings in Jakarta, believes his family went through so much
\npain because of the Cendana family.\"<\/p>\n
A source at East Jakarta Police Headquarters said one bomb in
\nElize's possession was meant for the Attorney General's Office
\n\"to take out Marzuki Darusman\". The second was to be planted at
\nthe Ministry of Industry and Trade to kill Luhut Panjaitan, and
\nthe third was meant for the Directorate General of Taxation for
\n\"shock therapy\".<\/p>\n
\"Elize told me that if I succeeded in destroying the three
\nbuildings on Friday afternoon she would introduce me to Tommy,
\nwho would give me Rp 1 billion (US$105,263) as payment and give
\nme many more jobs planting bombs,\" the source quoted Joko's
\nstatement in a police dossier.<\/p>\n
\"I fooled Elize into believing that I was interested (in the
\njob). With the first Rp 10 million she paid me, I bought a
\ncellular phone that cannot be tapped. The very next day, I called
\nthe police and told them of her plans.\"<\/p>\n
A university graduate, Joko told police officers he first met
\nElize, a former treasurer of the Republican Party, when she came
\nto his psychic clinic in Lubang Buaya, East Jakarta, asking him
\nfor help her make her seafood restaurant a success.<\/p>\n
\"She came again ... to ask me if I could transfer some goods
\nfor her. She said these goods were bombs. The third time she
\ncame, I asked her who had told her to transfer the bombs. She
\njust stood there quietly,\" Joko told the police. \"I pushed her to
\ngive me the name, and she said Tommy.\"<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday, Joko visited Elize's residence and during that
\nmeeting Elize gave him Rp 10 million.<\/p>\n
\"She wanted to give me the bombs that day. I refused to take
\nthem and told her that I would take them in three days. I
\nreported her to the police and the Attorney General's Office.
\nSoon, she called me again and we agreed to meet at the Yogyakarta
\nHall of TMII at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
\"She wanted to give me the bombs during that meeting, and I
\nagain called the police.\"<\/p>\n
Agus said that from 2 a.m. on Friday, 120 undercover
\ndetectives and intelligence officers spread out across Taman Mini
\nas they waited to nab Elize.<\/p>\n
\"Some pretended to be gardeners, some street cleaners ... I
\nmyself acted like a reporter, with a camera in hand. Elize
\narrived at the park in a taxi,\" Agus said.<\/p>\n
\"When Joko saw her, he put on his cap, which was a signal to
\nus that she had arrived. She told him to take the bombs from the
\ntrunk of the taxi and put them in his car. He refused and told
\nher to do it herself .... She did it, and we arrested her.\" (ylt)<\/p>",
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