City official found killed in hotel room

JAKARTA (JP): A city official of the Tanah Sereal subdistrict administration office in West Jakarta was found dead in a hotel room on Saturday morning with two deep wounds, to the throat and the left wrist.

Police have yet to release a statement about the incident but relatives of the victim, Heryanto, 36, believed that the "kind and successful man in the family" was killed by one of his friends for unknown reason.

The deceased was found by some hotel employees, who forced the door of Heryanto's room at about 4 a.m. Saturday as he had not come out of the room since Friday night.

It remained unclear, however, why Heryanto, a father of two, was staying at the hotel. Neither his relatives nor the hotel employees have given an explanation about the man or woman that accompanied Heryanto during his stay.

A postmortem examination of his body by forensic experts at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital has not yet revealed the cause of death.

Nuraeni, the deceased's wife, said tearfully that she suspected one of her husband's acquaintances, who had a fight with Heryanto a week before, as having committed the murder.

She has called for West Jakarta police detectives to immediately carry out an in-depth investigation on the suspected killing of her husband.

According to Tobri, the victim's brother in-law, Heryanto had not returned home since Friday without any message to his family.

He denied the possibility that Heryanto might have committed suicide. He said he never saw the victim depressed.

Heryanto, he said, was known as a kind and successful person among his family.

Separately in West Jakarta, six men were mobbed by local residents on Saturday in two incidents.

The first one, identified as Syamsul Rizal, was fatally mobbed by Kebun Jeruk residents after a fight with another man, whose car had collided with the one driven by the victim.

Syamsul, who identified himself to the residents as a serviceman, refused to meet the people's call to stop the fight. The residents became upset and mobbed him to death.

The other five men were mobbed by Joglo residents after the five allegedly tried to steal a car in the area.

Two of them were killed in the mobbing. The other three are still undergoing treatment at the police-run Soekanto hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. (04)