Three arrested with stolen telephone box<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested three people for stealing a
\ntelephone exchange box from Jl. Yos Sudarso, North Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira, chief of the North Jakarta
\nPolice Precinct, said on Monday that the three, identified only
\nas Har, Ras, and Sar, were caught at the Kalideres bus terminal
\nbefore handing over the stolen goods to a buyer, Antara reported
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
The North Jakarta PT Telkom office had earlier announced that
\naround 600 telephone lines in the vicinity of Jl. Yos Sudarso had
\nbeen disrupted for three days due to last week's theft.<\/p>\n
The theft has inflicted a loss of more than Rp 43 million to
\nPT Telkom. \"The loss does not include the cost of repairs,\"
\nAbubakar said.<\/p>\n
He said there have been 24 thefts of telephone cables and
\nexchange boxes in North Jakarta since March.<\/p>\n
Abubakar said Har, who hails from Central Java, received an
\norder for a telephone exchange box from a man who promised to buy
\nthe item at between Rp 400,000 and Rp 500,000.<\/p>\n
\"Police have identified the man who placed the order,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
While the North Jakarta police were busy with the arrest of
\nthe three suspects, PT Telkom West Jakarta branch office said
\nyesterday that an exchange box on Jl. Rasuna Said, Kuningan,
\nSouth Jakarta had been stolen.<\/p>\n
\"As many as 600 telephone lines around Jl. HR Rasuna Said,
\nKuningan, South Jakarta, have been disrupted since Monday due to
\nthe theft,\" Jimmy R. Villanueva, head of PT Telkom West Jakarta
\nbranch office said.<\/p>\n
Jimmy said yesterday that the theft on Monday has affected
\ntelephone numbers beginning with 520xxxx, 525xxxx, 526xxxx. Telex
\nlines beginning with the number 62xxx, belonging to office
\nbuildings such as Akuntan Sentosa, Femina, Menjangan Sakti, TIRA,
\nUstra Indonesia, Cipta Strada, PPI, Tax Offices and Bank Tabungan
\nNegara have also been disrupted.<\/p>\n
Jimmy said repairs are being made, but he did not say when
\nservices would be back to normal. (sur)<\/p>",
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