10 soldiers detained for fatal beating

JAKARTA: Ten members of the Jakarta Military Command's supplies and transportation unit were detained by the military police after strong evidence was found that they had beaten to death a security guard, identified as Bagus Hariyanto, 50, alias Black, on Oct. 15.

Jakarta Military spokesman Lt. Col. Apang Sopandi said that after exhuming Bagus' body on Sunday, the forensic team of the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital found that his death was caused by a series of blows to the body.

The military had initially declared that Bagus died of a drug overdose. -- JP