12 security guards arrested for alleged role in killing

12 security guards arrested for alleged role in killing

JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta Police detectives spent almost a
week tracking down the 12 alleged killers of Maulana Djoko
Prayono, a 19-year-old youth, who was found last week barely
alive in a dumpster.

Head of South Jakarta Police detectives Maj. Rycko Amelza
Daniel said on Friday that all of the suspected killers worked at
the same security guard agency, PT Sentinil Garda Semesta, which
supplies satpam (security guards) to companies and housing
complexes.

He identified the security guards as Binariman, Nur Dwiantoro,
Maxi Milianus, Aceng, Awang Sukiatno, Abdul Gani, Dodi Fitria,
Agus Salim, and Sofyan. He said office boys Heru and Enteng
Mochtar, alias Enteng, as well as driver Ngatimin were also
suspected of involvement in the killing.

Maulana was found last Friday by villagers on Jl. Kavling
Polri in the Kandan area, Jagakarsa district. His head was
covered in a plastic bag, his body was covered in red welts and
his hands were bound.

Maulana was still breathing and the locals rushed him to the
Fatmawati Hospital. Upon reaching the hospital, he entered a coma
and died on Dec. 12.

Officer Rycko said the gang of suspected killers had confessed
that they carried out the violent act because Maulan had once
robbed one of them of his money and shoes.

"The suspected killers are actually good guys. They just went
too far. But we'll charge all of them for causing violent
injuries, which later caused the victim's death," Rycko said.

"The suspects had beaten and stabbed the victim in anger,
since the victim had robbed one of the suspects. They did not
beat the victim to death, but did leave him in the dumpster to
die."

Rycko said he and his men were initially totally in the dark
when they were informed about the villagers' discovery in the
Jagakarsa dumpster.

"We finally went to his parents. They told us that their boy
was a high school dropout, and had never dared to go back to
school.

"The boy had then become a parking attendant at a BCA branch.
I will not tell you which branch. We searched and waited in the
area for days and found out that the one who claimed to be a
parking attendant was known to his acquaintances as a thief, and
the boy was called Kinung."

In the beginning, Rycko said, nobody in the area would admit
to being a friend of Kinung's. He said eventually a man came up
to him and told him that Kinung's best friend, Andi, had just
been arrested for pickpocketing in the Pancoran subprecinct in
South Jakarta.

"I then got hold of Andi. He told me that he and Kinung had
last week robbed a person in a minivan. A few hours later, a
Kijang van with men in crew cuts and walkie-talkies arrived in
the Pasar Minggu area, and were about to kidnap both him and
Kinung, but he escaped. That was the last Andi saw of Kinung."

Rycko said an eyewitness to the incident later told the police
that he saw Kinung being dragged into the office of PT Sentinil
Garda Semesta.

"I went there myself, grabbed hold of Enteng, an office boy,
and asked him about the incident," the officer said.

"Enteng confessed everything, starting from the time Kinung
robbed Dwiantoro, to the fact that Toro got mad enough and
gathered his security guard friends to hunt for this thief," he
said.

Separately, Dwiantoro told The Jakarta Post that he had only
beaten Maulana.

"Then I sat back and witnessed my friends beat the man up. I
didn't say anything to Dodi Fitria when I saw him chopping the
thief's hair off and covering the thief's head with a plastic
bag."

Dwiantoro said the dead youth had once told him to take off
his shoes, take his wallet out, and had taken everything from
him.

"I could not leave him alone. When I saw that my friends had
beaten him to a pulp, I thought this thief would die," Toro said.

"So I took the body in the van and went to my superior -- I
can't give you his name -- and told him about the matter.

I asked him whether we should take the thief to the police. My
superior told me that it would just cause trouble, and told me to
dump him somewhere."

"All the while, the thief murmured to me that he was sorry,
and that he would never rob again. But, all of us were just
angry. So, we just left him in the dumpster." (ylt)