Geo-radar detectors find passageway

Geo-radar detectors find passageway

JAKARTA (JP): Geo-radar detectors have indicated the existence
of a passageway leading from Jl. Cendana in the Menteng area of
Central Jakarta, to the former office of the State Logistics
Agency (Bulog) on Jl. Teuku Umar in Menteng, a top police officer
said on Tuesday.

"The passageway runs below the intersection of Jl. Teuku Umar
and Jl. Tanjung in Central Jakarta. The Bulog office itself, now
defunct and used by an elite police unit to secure the Cendana
area, is located next to the Indonesian Heart Foundation's
headquarters," city police chief of detectives Sr. Comr. Harry
Montolalu told reporters at the House of Representatives (DPR)
building.

The desperate search for subterranean bunkers below and around
the residence of the fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, was
initially motivated by the belief that Tommy could be hiding in
one of them.

Harry added on Tuesday that the passageway also seemed to be
linked to the residence of Army Maj. Gen. (ret) Murtiyoso on Jl.
Cendana 2A, located some 100 meters from former president
Soeharto's residence on Jl. Cendana No. 6-10 in Central Jakarta.

The city police's Chief Insp. Gen. Mulyono Sulaiman said on
Monday that rather than hoping to find Tommy in a subterranean
bunker, the police were actually hoping to find leads.

"Now, we're searching for leads... any strong lead that could
be in those bunkers, which could bring the police to Tommy," city
police chief Insp. Gen. Mulyono Sulaiman told The Jakarta Post on
Monday.

"We believe that we will find at least one strong lead, which
will lead us to Tommy."

Other than the bunker which police located below Tommy's house
on Jl. Cendana, police have also drilled holes at six other
spots, five of which are inside Tommy's residence.

"These were test drillings that we conducted," National Police
spokesman Brig. Gen. Saleh Saaf told reporters earlier.

"In all six spots, we hit planks of some kind, not earth. This
strengthened our suspicion that there could be more bunkers
underground, and that Tommy could possibly be hiding there."

Despite having earlier found nobody in the air-conditioned and
well-furnished subterranean bunker discovered under Tommy's
house, police have refused to eliminate the possibility that the
fugitive, a billionaire businessman, could be hiding somewhere in
or around Jl. Cendana in the leafy Menteng district of Central
Jakarta.(ylt)