Comedy star jumps to death from 10th-floor

Comedy star jumps to death from 10th-floor

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A television comedy star, Nela Zariana, 25, allegedly killed
herself on Sunday morning by jumping from the 10th floor of her
apartment, Wisma Gading Permai in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta.

Nela was pronounced dead at the scene.

"We have not yet completed the investigation, but at this
point it appears to have been suicide," said Kelapa Gading police
detectives chief, First Insp. Marsdianto.

Marsdianto said police were still questioning four witnesses
in connection to the incident, including Nela's boyfriend Joy
Chang, alias Acang, who lived with Nela in the apartment.

Citing the statements made by the witnesses, Marsdianto said
that Nela had been quarreling with Acang prior to the incident.

"She went out to a karaoke bar in Tambora, West Jakarta
Saturday around midnight and returned home at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
She woke her boyfriend and they began to quarrel," he related,
according to the statements from witnesses.

Nela, who had a supporting role in the comedy reality show
Spontan, is survived by her 18-month-old toddler.

If it was suicide, it would be the first recorded thus far in
the capital this year.

Last month, a Japanese citizen, Marie Fujii, 22, also killed
herself by jumping from the 11th floor of the Bukit Golf
Apartment building in Pondok Indah, South Jakarta.

Although she survived in the initial fall, she eventually died
at Pondok Indah Hospital.

Earlier in December, Mamay Riskomar, 54, killed himself by
jumping from the fifth floor of the Fatmawati Hospital, Cilandak,
South Jakarta.