Another child goes missing

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Three-year-old Anisa Inggar Lestari has been missing since Aug. 11 from her parents' house at Jl. Mangga Dua VIII no. 36 in Ancol, Pademangan, North Jakarta.

Anisa's mother, Lasmiati, 23, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday that she had reported her daughter missing to the Pademangan Police three hours after she went missing and again 24 hours later.

However, by Saturday the police could only assure the parents that there was no indication that their daughter had been kidnapped for ransom.

No one at the Pademangan Police station could be reached for comment.

A 23-month-old girl also went missing from her parents house in Pademangan in March. It is believed that a sadistic gang abducted the toddler, whose body was found after the parents failed to pay the Rp 15 million (US$1,764.7) ransom demanded. She had been brutally raped.

The gang is believed to be responsible for a series of kidnappings in various areas in Jakarta, as well as in Bogor, Tangerang and Cianjur in West Java.

A member of the gang was arrested late last month, but his accomplices are still at large.

Anisa, the only daughter of Adjie Sukarji, 26, and Lasmiati, was last seen playing in front of the house under her grandparents' supervision.

But at 4:30 p.m. the grandparents had to deal with some customers in their store in front of the house. When they returned to the yard, Anisa was gone. They initially thought the little girl went to play at a shop-house complex near the house.

Lasmiati and her husband were at work at the time.

"She is our only child, if anyone sees her please contact us," Lasmiati said, adding that she can be contacted at 021-9259610.

Anisa has black hair, fair skin, a flat nose, bushy eyebrows, a mole in her left armpit and a small scar from an abscess on her left thigh. She is 90 centimeters tall and weighs 21 kilograms.

She was last seen wearing white T-shirt with green stripes, a yellow skirt and orange athletic sandals.