Prisoners' plan to bomb prison and escape thwarted<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The police have foiled the plans of five
\nprisoners to build a homemade bomb inside the Tangerang Prison
\nand use it to aid their escape.<\/p>\n
Tangerang Police deputy chief Comr. Ricky Wakanno said on
\nWednesday that the five prisoners were allegedly building the
\nbomb using material smuggled into prison, by the wife of one of
\nthe prisoners.<\/p>\n
\"They planned to detonate the explosive on April 20. With that
\ndiversion, they were hoping to escape prison,\" Ricky told The
\nJakarta Post.<\/p>\n
The bomb equipment was found hidden inside their cell on
\nTuesday night.<\/p>\n
Ricky identified the prisoners as embezzlement convict
\nSugiyanto, drug convict Sunardi and robbery convicts Deddy
\nSusanto, Sigit Harianto and Muhammad Iqbal.<\/p>\n
\"It was Deddy Susanto's wife who gradually smuggled in the
\nequipment to build the bomb with each visit she made to the
\nprison. Family members of Sugianto also helped by smuggling in
\nequipment.\"<\/p>\n
Ricky added that jail wardens who allowed Deddy's wife and
\nSugianto's family members to enter the prison unchecked, would
\nsoon be detained for questioning.<\/p>\n
\"The wardens are partly responsible for this,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He added that his detectives were already questioning
\nTangerang Prison chief warden Paulus Sugeng, and jail warden
\nRuslan.<\/p>\n
\"According to the prisoners, Deddy's wife had succeeded in
\nsmuggling in most of the bomb equipment, except for the explosive
\nmaterial itself ... which she was intending to smuggle in either
\nthis week or the next.\"<\/p>\n
The confiscated bomb equipment included timers, batteries,
\nsome wiring, stove wicks, and bottles, which Ricky said, would
\nhave been assembled into Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n
Ricky explained that at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, he received
\ninformation from Paulus Sugeng that some prison inmates of Block
\nC2 -- which is now being secured by police officers -- were going
\nto make a bomb.<\/p>\n
\"Paulus said that he got this information from some of the
\nprison inmates,\" Ricky said.<\/p>\n
\"Sugianto was the one making the bomb ... he told us that this
\nwas his first experience.<\/p>\n
\"He was actually transferred from the Salemba Penitentiary
\ninto Tangerang Prison, because he had made precisely the same
\nplan there, of blasting his way out of jail, during Christmas Eve
\nlast year.\"<\/p>\n
Ricky added that jail wardens in penitentiaries across Greater
\nJakarta seemed to be losing control over prisoners, and were
\neasily lured by money which rich prisoners provided wardens with,
\nin exchange for drugs and other perks inside prison, or even
\nfreedom.<\/p>\n
Last month, a prisoner was killed when hundreds of police were
\nattempting to quell a riot that broke out in Cipinang
\nPenitentiary in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The government-sanctioned National Commission on Human Rights
\n(Komnas HAM) was scheduled to carry out a nationwide inquiry into
\npenitentiaries and detention centers, to uncover the roots of
\nunrest in such institutions.<\/p>\n
There are 372 correctional institutions and detention centers
\nacross provinces nationwide, but the number of prisoners usually
\nexceed the capacity of the prison. (ylt)<\/p>",
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