Ciomas police deserve award for the arrest of murder suspect
Ciomas police deserve award for the arrest of murder suspect
JAKARTA (JP): The director of the Indonesian Legal Aid
Foundation (YLBHI) said yesterday that members of the crime
investigation unit (CIU) of Ciomas, Bogor, deserve an award for
their success in arresting the man who murdered a Bogor
Agriculture Institute (IPB) student.
Police arrested Sofyan bin Atang, 22, an unemployed man who
lived in the victim's neighborhood, at his friend's house in
Bukit Duri, South Jakarta, on Tuesday.
The arrest took place five days after the murder, which had
shocked the IPB campus and caused a wave of fear among many of
the institute female students.
"The ability of the local police, especially its CIU, to solve
the case and then arrest the suspect in a relatively short period
demonstrates the subprecinct's efficient working system,"
lawyer/criminologist Mulyana W. Kusumah said.
Mulyana added, "The work of the local police deserves credit."
Wida Rakhmawati, 22, a third-year student of aquiculture, was
found stabbed at her boarding house located just a few hundred
meters from the IPB campus in Dermaga, about seven kilometers
west of Bogor. She was found in the room of Ari, a friend who had
gone to Jakarta for the day.
Based on Sofyan's confession, Wida was the victim of a crime
that had been intended for Ari.
Sofyan, according to the police, said he had initially
intended to break into Ari's room to steal money, but then when
he saw the bare thigh of a woman, who he thought was Ari, he
decided to rape her.
"I though it was Ari, the girl I have been in love with for
some time," Sofyan reportedly told his investigators.
Wida was awake when Sofyan entered the room and looked as if
she was going to scream for help, so Sofyan then went to the
kitchen to get a knife and then stabbed her several times.
Although there was no signs that Wida had been raped, Sofyan's
confession attested to the fact that her underwear had been torn.
It was Ari who found the body of Wida lying in the room with a
knife in one hand and two stab wounds to the chest and throat.
The keys to Ari's room were found by police in the bathtub. (has)