Green-togged terror victims named suspects

Green-togged terror victims named suspects

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Tangerang/Depok

Ciputat Police named two women who had previously filed reports
to the police on the mysterious half-man, half-beast kolor hijau
(green underwear) rapist as suspects for making false statements
that could cause public disquiet.

"Saripah has been a suspect since yesterday and Rosadah was
declared a suspect today. They both made false reports that could
cause public disquiet. We haven't arrested them though," said the
Ciputat Police chief Adj. Comr. Zulfan on Sunday.

"We will charge them under Article 220 of the Criminal Code.
If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to 16 months.

According to Zulfan, Saripah had admitted during questioning
that she made up her story of an attempt being made to rape her
due to the economic problems she faced and to try to get public
attention. The police have yet to ascertain why Rosadah made a
similar false complaint.

"We did not believe their reports from the start. We even
invited ulemas to tell them that there was no such thing as the
kolor hijau creature. We suspect that somebody put them up to
it," he said.

Adrianus Meliala, a criminologist with the University of
Indonesia, told The Jakarta Post that the police might have good
grounds for declaring the two women suspects.

"However, they must not do this just as an emergency measure
to calm down the public or to stop the rumors spreading," he
said.

Saripah, who lives in Ciputat, reported to police late on
Saturday that the creature had tried to rape her on Friday
evening. On Friday, Rosadah, who also lives in Ciputat, had
reported an attempted rape by the kolor hijau creature to the
police.

The police later took Rosadah to the Fatmawati Hospital in
South Jakarta for examination. The examining doctors found that
the scratches on Rosadah had not been made by human nails.

Rosadah claimed she had been sleeping with her husband, Syarif
Jamin, and their eight-year-old daughter when she awoke to find
"a strange creature trying to tear my dress and scratch me with
his claws".

"The creature was about 160 centimeters tall, bald, with a
flat face, a nose like a pig's snout, pointy ears, a paunch and
hairy skin," she recalled on Saturday, adding that the beast was
wearing green underwear.

An assault by the mysterious creature was also reported on
Friday night by Sumiyati, 34, a resident of Pancoran Mas, Depok.

Sumiyati reported to the police that she found a half-pig,
half-man creature wearing green underwear on top of her. She
tried to fight him off before fainting. She is still being
questioned by police.

The activities of the mysterious Kolor Hijau creature were
first reported in Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, last November. Since
then, fear of the green-togged terror has spread far and wide.

Many people believe that creature is actually a man who is
involved in a ritual that requires him to rape 100 women to
complete his black magic powers. He always somehow manages to
escape angry residents.

The fear is palpable in many homes in Ciputat, Pasar Minggu
and Kalibata, as well as Depok. Many houses in these areas have
yellow bamboo sticks, lontar (palmyra palm) leaves and kelor
leaves above their doors. Locals believe that these three items
have the power to counter black magic.