Suspect admits to friend's murder<\/p>\n
Evi Mariani, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Rakhmat Hartadi, or Adi, who is accused of stabbing a friend to
\ndeath in July, confessed on Wednesday to committing the crime
\nbecause the friend had offended him.<\/p>\n
\"He called me poor and a liar,\" Adi, 19, told reporters. The
\nsuspect has been in custody at the Jakarta Police detention these
\npast three weeks.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon of July 12, Adi visited Marco Immanuel Sibih,
\nalso 19, at his house in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta. Marco, who
\nwas studying at an Australian university, was at home with his
\nsister, Melissa, 16, and the family's maid, Eva.<\/p>\n
His parents, who own a BMW showroom, were out meeting clients.<\/p>\n
According to Eva, she ran into the living room upon hearing
\nMarco start to scream and saw that he was bleeding. Adi hit Eva
\nover the head and tried initially to rape her, but then locked
\nher in a closet and fled, stealing Marco's cell phone and Rp
\n250,000 (US$28) in cash.<\/p>\n
\"I did not know Melissa was upstairs,\" said Adi, adding that
\nhe had run away from his Bekasi home three weeks prior to the
\nmurder. During that time, he had sought shelter at a mosque near
\nMarco's house in Pasar Minggu, where he had lived as a child.<\/p>\n
Jakarta Police chief of detectives Sr. Comr. Mathius Salempang
\nsaid police had tracked down Adi through friends and family, and
\nfound him on July 16 in a village in Cikampek Timur, Karawang.<\/p>\n
\"As soon as we arrived in the village, Adi, who was staying at
\na local friend's house, gave himself up,\" he said.<\/p>",
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