UI expert worries on mutilation cases<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Criminologist Erlangga Mesdiana from the
\nUniversity of Indonesia is worried that the failure to solve
\nmutilation cases would lead others to imitate such sadistic
\nkillings.<\/p>\n
According to Erlangga, suspects in such murders normally
\nattempt to dispose of all evidence to hamper efforts by police to
\nidentify the victims.<\/p>\n
\"This method may encourage other criminals to imitate the
\ncrime,\" the expert told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Erlangga, therefore, strongly urged the police to do their
\nbest and seriously probe the mutilation cases to arrest the
\nkillers.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, society, which has witnessed extreme violence by
\nvigilantes, particularly in the capital, could be influenced by
\nthe sadistic murder, he said.<\/p>\n
\"A killer often suffers from depression, is easily bewildered
\nand is strongly influenced by his community,\" said Erlangga.<\/p>\n
The latest mutilation case was reported in the media early
\nthis week, with details of the discovery in three locations of
\ndismembered male body parts.<\/p>\n
Several male body parts were found at the Manggarai floodgate
\nin Central Jakarta on Sunday afternoon. In the evening, the upper
\npart of an abdomen was discovered floating in the Muara Angke
\nfishing port in Sunda Kelapa, North Jakarta and the following
\nday, a leg was found in the Cideng River in Grogol, West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
So far, Jakarta Police detectives have not announced any
\nprogress in the investigation.<\/p>\n
A day after the discoveries, a woman visited the morgue at the
\nCipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital -- where the mutilated body
\nparts are kept -- and believes they might be the remains of her
\nmissing brother.<\/p>\n
She told the forensic pathologists that she needed to see the
\nother hand, which has clear identification marks, to confirm that
\nthe dead man was her brother.<\/p>\n
The left hand is still missing.<\/p>\n
According to forensic expert Mun'im Idries, a man named
\nKiswondo from Rawamangun, East Jakarta, came on Tuesday to
\nexamine the remains. Kiswondo's 37-year-old son is missing.<\/p>\n
Kiswondo believes that the body parts are not the remains of
\nhis missing son, said Mun'im, who still hopes someone will be
\nable to identify the body. (07)<\/p>",
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