99 bodies sent to RSCM in two months

99 bodies sent to RSCM in two months

JAKARTA (JP): As of Monday, Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital records show a total 99 bodies admitted to its morgue
this year, of which only seven have been identified by family
members and/or friends.

The records show the bodies were found in different parts of
the capital with various causes of death.

The seven bodies were identified by relatives and friends of
the deceased a few days after their remains were admitted to the
morgue. Identification revealed that 40-year-old Rasman died
after being electrocuted while sitting on the roof of a train;
Sukron, who drowned in Ciliwung River in Jatinegara, East
Jakarta. The other five were murdered, including a transvestite
identified as Hugo Yonathan.

Among the unidentified corpses were nine babies, believed to
be unwanted by their parents, some of which were buried in a mass
grave in Pondok Ranggon, on the outskirts of Jakarta. One of the
nine was found on Monday in Tambora, West Jakarta.

The remaining corpses bore traces of either violent physical
assault by blunt objects or sharp weapons; a number of bloated
corpses indicated the cause of death was either accidentally or
murder. One woman's decomposed body was found by a fisherman in
Ancol, North Jakarta, four days after she had been murdered. A
fisherman found her remains half-naked and her hands tied with
her clothes.

Signs indicating death due to drug overdose were also present
in a number of bodies.

Bruises and marks of beating were also found on several
bodies, including that of the man who was beaten up by an angry
crowd following Sunday's murder attempt on the National Awakening
Party chairman Matori Abdul Djalil in his house in South Jakarta.

Seven of the unidentified bodies were kept for medical
studies, while the remaining were buried in Pondok Ranggon
cemetery. (06)