Armed robbery in Pondok Cabe

Armed robbery in Pondok Cabe

JAKARTA (JP): A group of masked robbers broke into a house in
Pamulang in South Jakarta early on Wednesday and made off with an
Isuzu Panther van, mobile phone, video recorder, jewelry and cash
totaling Rp 200 million.

City policeman spokesman Lt. Col. Edward Aritonang said the
robbers threatened the occupants of the house, Bunadi Harlan, 49,
an employee of a private firm, his wife, their only child and two
housemaids, with machetes.

Police suspect the robbers were drunken youths from a nearby
neighborhood.

Neither the victims nor their neighbors heard or saw any
vehicle stop near Bunadi's house on Jl. Delima in Pondok Cabe
Udik around the time when the incident took place, police said.

Bunadi said the robbery began at around 2 a.m. while the
family was asleep.

They were awoken by strange noises at the front of the house,
Aritonang said.

"Bunadi and his wife had first tried to prevent the thieves
from entering by blocking the door but the burglars managed to
get past them without any difficulty," he said.

The five men, one of them dressed only in his underwear, then
woke the two housemaids, threatened them with their weapons and
ordered them to join Bunadi and his wife in the living room,
Aritonang said.

The gang then bound and gagged their captives with a curtain.

The defenseless victims then watched helplessly as their house
was ransacked by the gang, Aritonang said.

Bunadi reported the burglary at the nearby police subprecinct
three hours later after the gang had left the house. (emf)