Argo Bromo

From Kompas

A theft has taken place on the newly-introduced super express train Argo Bromo. On May 23, my husband traveled from Surabaya to Jakarta on this train. He had a number of Rp 50,000 banknotes stowed in one of the pouches of his traveling bag.

When he reached home, he tried to unzip the pouch (superglue was blocking the zipper). When we finally managed to open the pouch we found only two of the Rp 50,000 banknotes plus a stack of Rp 100 banknotes amounting to Rp 4,500, apparently inserted by the thief to fill the space.

It was astonishing that the culprit used such refined means to purloin money from a dozing passenger.

Argo Bromo passengers, beware of the seats A, B, C and D of row two or any other seat at the back of the carriage. The thief was not entirely inconsiderate, he left us more than Rp 100,000. Thanks.

The state-owned railway company PERUMKA needs to tighten control on its much-vaunted trains in the Argo series.

ENDANG P.

Bekasi, West Java