Elderly couple murdered at home

Elderly couple murdered at home

Theresia Sufa, Bogor

An elderly couple were found dead on Wednesday at their home in
the Agricultural Research housing compound, Pasir Mulya-Ciomas
subdistrict, West Bogor district, with gashes to their heads and
faces.

West Bogor Police are currently investigating the matter but
have yet to name any suspect or motive behind the murder.

Sulaeman Effendi, 54, was found in bed, wearing only a shirt.
His wounded face was covered by his underpants, with a long gash
across his midriff.

His wife, Mamik Sutarmi, 54, was discovered sitting, leaning
against a cupboard in their bedroom. Her severely wounded head
was also covered by an undergarment.

Meliani Daud Yamani, the sister-in-law of Sulaeman, told the
press at the Indonesian Red Cross Hospital that the couple's
housemaid, Narti, arrived at the house at 6 a.m. but found the
gate was still closed.

She knocked on the door for some time but nobody opened it.
She later went to a neighbor's house to call her employers, but
nobody answered the call.

Narti and some neighbors tried to call Sulaeman from outside
the gate. They became suspicious when there was no reply after
some time. Later, they broke into the house and found both
victims already dead.

"Maybe the perpetrators were robbers. Some neighbors found my
brother-in-law's radio behind his house. Whoever did it, they
should not have brutally killed them," Meilani said, crying.

She regretted that the victims' children, Budi and Wulan, had
refused to live with their parents as both were already married
and lived with their respective families at the Vila Bogor Asri
housing complex.

"I have repeatedly asked them to live with Sulaeman because he
had suffered a stroke, but they always refused," she said. "They
must now be regretting the tragedy."