Fourteen declared suspects after attack

Fourteen declared suspects after attack

PATI, Central Java: Police declared fourteen latex tappers as
suspects on Thursday in the torching of a rubber factory in
Karangsari subdistrict.

The Pati Police's chief of detectives, Detective Adj. Insp.
Sumardika, said that the 14 were declared suspects after
preliminary investigations found that they were responsible for
the attack.

The police were questioning 39 other latex tappers at police
headquarters here, said Sumardika.

All 53 latex tappers, who are Karangsari residents, were
arrested on Tuesday on charges of setting fire earlier in the
morning to a factory belonging to rubber processing company PT
Rumpun Sari Alam.

They claimed they had set the factory ablaze after the company
rejected their demands for a 50 percent share of each liter of
latex tapped in the company's plantation here. -- JP