Burglars make off with Rp25m goods

Burglars make off with Rp25m goods

JAKARTA (JP): Five burglars threatened to stab an office boy
working at an electronics shop in Central Jakarta before stealing
Rp 20 million worth of goods yesterday.

A sergeant at the Central Jakarta Police precinct said the
burglars had arrived in a Kijang minivan at 11:30 a.m. outside
the shop on Jl. Taman Batang Hari, Tanah Abang.

"The burglars noisily broke the lock on a rolling door," he
said.

Affandi, the office boy, went to see what had caused the
noise. When he found the burglars, one of them pointed a sword
and threatened to kill him if he shouted or resisted.

They tied up Affandi with a rope and put a plaster on his
mouth.

The burglars smashed the shop's windows before making their
getaway.

The sergeant said Toni Sugianto, the shop's owner, had untied
Affandi before reporting the burglary to the Tanah Abang Police
subprecinct.

Toni had gone to check the shop which was closed for the day.

In another robbery over the weekend, burglars smashed through
the back wall of Gloria Department Store on Jl. Pasar Kembang,
Central Jakarta, and stole Rp 5 million worth of cash and goods.

The sergeant said police assumed the robbery had occurred
Saturday night.

He said the store's supervisor, Ade Kartika Sari, had arrived
at the store yesterday at 11 a.m. and found the hole in the wall
and the money and merchandise missing. (jun)