Gang arrested for stabbing student

BEKASI, West Java (JP): A gang of drunken rowdies stabbed a 17-year-old student, Rahmat, to death with a bayonet in Jati Karya village, Pondok Gede, early yesterday and wounded an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver, Bo'ing, who tried to intervene.

"The police arrested three members of the gang four hours later at their house a hundred meters away and confiscated the blood-stained bayonet," the chief of the Bekasi police precinct, Lt. Col. Alex Bambang Riatmodjo, told the press.

The ruffians, identified as Ray, Vic and Jac told the press that each of them took part in the killing because the victim did not answer their questions properly. They also admitted to smashing Bo'ing 's head with a brick.

Ray said that he, his accomplices and five other friends had been drinking alcohol before going to the seafood stall where they met Rahmat.

He admitted that the gang and sixty other friends from Maluku are guarding thousands meters of land in Pondok Gede which is owned by PT Tata Nusa.

Chief of the police detectives, First Lieutenant Djoko Poerwanto told The Jakarta Post that the gang moved to the village from Joglo, West Jakarta, to guard the land. (kod)