Drivers rally over dead friend

Drivers rally over dead friend

BANDUNG, West Java: More than 100 city bus drivers went on
strike on Monday in a show of solidarity over the death of a
driver who died in a fist fight with a soldier last week.

City buses serving several routes in the West Java capital
city, Bandung, stopped operating, as more than 100 drivers went
on strike and others staged a rally before the Siliwangi Military
Police Detachment compound.

They demanded that First Pvt. Gusti Marias be punished for
causing the death of bus driver Ginting Munthe, 59, on Thursday
last week.

Ginting died following a heart attack in a fist fight Gusti
provoked after Ginting's bus accidentally bumped into his
motorcycle.

Siliwangi Military Police commander Col. CPM Darmadi said that
Gusti was in detention and faced a possible 15 years in prison if
he was found guilty of the assault. -- JP