Police still hunting suspect in student kidnapping<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police are still hunting for one of three
\nsuspects in the kidnapping of a school girl on July 26. The girl
\nis a daughter of a secretary at the North Jakarta District Court.<\/p>\n
A police detective at the North Jakarta police precinct
\nconfirmed that two suspects, identified only as As, 34, and Gn,
\n25, have been arrested.<\/p>\n
"The other, identified as An, is still at large," the
\ndetective, who requested anonymity, told The Jakarta Post over
\nthe weekend.<\/p>\n
According to the detective, the men kidnapped 9-year-old Ridha
\nFirli Tendri just as she was leaving her school in Manggarai,
\nSouth Jakarta.<\/p>\n
While the alleged kidnappers moved Ridha around the city,
\nanother person called her mother, demanding Rp 20 million
\n(US$8,510) in ransom money.<\/p>\n
The kidnapper who rang Ridha's mother, Nursiah Ibrahim, at her
\noffice, said the money should be transferred to a bank account at
\nBank International Indonesia's branch in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
After receiving the call, Nursiah reported the kidnapping to
\nthe North Jakarta police.<\/p>\n
As suggested by the police, Nursiah fulfilled the kidnappers'
\ndemand by transferring the money to the account.<\/p>\n
The kidnappers released her daughter that evening in front of
\nthe bank.<\/p>\n
On July 30, the police received a report from an employee of
\nbank's Depok branch, saying that a man was going to make a
\nwithdrawal from an account which matched the number given by
\nNursiah.<\/p>\n
The police went to the bank and apprehended As.<\/p>\n
The other men, who were waiting in a car in the parking lot,
\nescaped.<\/p>\n
Gn was arrested early in the morning on July 31 in his car in
\nBandung, West Java.<\/p>\n
According to the police, the other man, An, who is believed to
\nbe the mastermind of the kidnapping, is a relative of Nursiah.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, another child kidnapping reported in South Jakarta
\nturned out to be the result of a dispute between a divorced
\ncouple.<\/p>\n
Six-year-old Jesslyn Araminta, also known as Intan, who had
\nearlier been reported to have been kidnapped by her father's
\nhousemaid, was found safe and sound at her mother's house on Jl.
\nTendean in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Intan's father I. Nyoman Budayasa told Kompas on Saturday his
\ndaughter had left his house on Jl. Ngurah Rai Tabanan, Bali, on
\nFriday. He said he suspected that the girl had been kidnapped by
\nhis housemaid Kasanah, who hails from Nganjuk, East Java.<\/p>\n
But on Friday Ruhut Sitompul, the lawyer of Intan's mother,
\nTitik Nurhayati, confirmed that the girl was now staying with
\nTitik, who is divorced from Budayasa.<\/p>\n
Ruhut said when the couple divorced, the court had decided
\nthat the children, Carisssa Kumala Dewi, 8, and Intan would be in
\nthe custody of their mother instead of their father.<\/p>\n
Budayasa refused to obey the court's decision, prohibiting his
\ndaughters from living with their mother, Ruhut said.(jun\/bas)<\/p>",
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