Drunken Navy men mobbed

JAKARTA (JP): Three Navy personnel were mobbed by several pedicab and motorcycle taxi drivers at the Tanjung Priok bus station, North Jakarta, on Saturday morning after the three got drunk and ran amok, a police report said.

One of the military personnel, identified as Second Pvt. Ateng, 24, suffered from serious wounds to the head and face and was admitted to the Koja hospital, the report said.

The other two, Second Pvt. Yosnia Yong, 25, and Second Pvt. Bahtiar, 24, who is also a member of the elite presidential guard, suffered slight injuries.

Several motorcycle-taxi drivers told The Jakarta Post at the bus station that the three had been shouting and banging on the street kiosks at about 2:30 a.m., which drew the drivers' attention.

A motorcycle taxi driver, who refused to be named, said, "They looked drunk and challenged us to fight them."

"My friends then got angry and beat them up," the driver said, adding that they stopped beating up the military personnel and left the scene before the arrival of several police officers.

Separately, in Bekasi, a report said that a police officer was beaten up by a group of men at the Bekasi bus station on Friday morning after previously engaging in a heated argument in a cafe in East Bekasi.

The report said that the officer, Sgt. Maj. Robinhod Manulang, from the East Bekasi subprecinct, was just about to leave the Lababan cafe at 2:40 a.m. when he had a quarrel with a group of unidentified men.

"The officer left the scene and went to the bus station but the men followed him and then beat him up," the report said.

Robinhod suffered injuries to the head and had to be admitted to the East Bekasi hospital. (jaw)