Ambarawa tobacco merchant shot dead

SEMARANG: The head of the Body for National Unity's Temanggung chapter, Himawan, was murdered on Friday night in Ambarawa, Central Java. He died at an Ambarawa hospital from gunshot wounds to the neck and chest, police said. No motive has been found.

Police officers requesting anonymity said Himawan, 61, known as a successful tobacco entrepreneur, was on his way home from paying respects to the family of a friend who had died with his driver. At one of the roads where motorists have to pay fees, two men on a motorcycle approached Himawan's stopped car and one of them fired shots at him.

Police quoted his neighbors as saying that Himawan had received a number of threats over the past few days. Among others at the funeral on Saturday was Temanggung regent Sarjono.