Five Bogor residents die mysteriously

Five Bogor residents die mysteriously

BOGOR: Five residents of the same neighborhood in Kampung
Parung Alen in Cikeas village, Sukaraja district, Bogor regency,
died from a mysterious illness within 10 days of each other.

The victims were Tiyah, 15, her mother Nayah, 60, her mother-
in-law Upi, 60, Aisyah, 35, and Herni, 13. They died between
April 9 and April 19.

Tiyah's father, Uci, said that on April 12, Tiyah had a high
fever, stomachache and headache. "I thought it was just a common
illness, so I bought drugs at a warung (street stall), but there
was no improvement. I was about to call for a mantri (medical
aide), but she died."

Nayah died the following day. Before her death, her family
took her to Salak Hospital in Bogor, but she could not be saved.

Herni's mother, Hakin, was running a high fever the night
before she died on April 9.

Aisyah died on April 18, followed by Upi the following day.

The head of the local Epidemiology Surveillance and
Immunization Office, Eulis Wulantari, said the cause of death was
a mystery.

She suspected that Nayah and Aisyah died due to kidney
failure, while Herni and Tiyah may have died from dengue
hemorrhagic fever, while Upi may have had typhoid.

She said the Bogor health agency had checked 45 houses and
found the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue fever,
in four houses.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is common in the densely populated
Kampung Parung Alen. Sanitation in the area is poor and houses
are located close to dirty goat enclosures. --JP

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Focus-FPI-apology
FPI apologizes for 'kidnapping' chief
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FPI apologizes for 'kidnapping' chief

JAKARTA: The Islam Defenders' Front (FPI) said they were sorry
for "kidnapping" chief Habib Rizieq Shihab from the Jakarta
Prosecutor's Office on Monday, saying it was not planned
beforehand and was done without the knowledge of his legal team.

FPI secretary-general Ahmad Shabri Lubis in his letter to the
Attorney General on Tuesday said the incident was spontaneous and
a reflection of the FPI supporters' disappointment with the
police force whom he said had framed Rizieq.

In the letter, received by the Attorney General's Office on
Wednesday, Lubis also asked the prosecutors to consider Rizieq's
request to release him from detention, according to the office's
spokesman Antasari Azhar.

Rizieq, who is being held at the Salemba detention center in
Central Jakarta, is a suspect in a string of FPI attacks on
entertainment spots and faces a maximum sentence of seven years
in jail.

Head of the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office, Muljohardjo, told The
Jakarta Post on Wednesday that the prosecutors would not process
the request and instead would soon submit the case to court.

"The case would be delegated tomorrow (Thursday) to the
Central Jakarta Prosecutor's Office who will later submit it to
the Central Jakarta District Court," he added.-- JP

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Focus-Tangerang-mayor
Tangerang mayor again fails to testify
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Tangerang mayor again fails to testify

TANGERANG: Tangerang Mayor M. Thamrin failed on Tuesday to
answer a court summons to testify in the corruption trial of a
former high-ranking official, the fifth time he failed to turn up
in court.

Prosecutor Puji Rahardjo told the Tangerang District Court
that the mayor said he had to go out of town, the same excuse he
gave the four previous times for not testifying. This time he
said he had to go to Bandung for a business trip.

Rather than ordering the prosecutor to use every means
necessary to bring get the mayor into the courtroom, presiding
judge Suprapto agreed to hear the mayor's written statements made
during police questioning.

The court is hearing the case of Agus Burhanuddin, the former
chief of the municipal finance and prosperity body and a former
municipal administration assistant. He is being tried for
corruption involving a total of Rp 5.8 billion.

If found guilty, Agus could be sentenced to 20 years in jail.
--JP