Gunawan is mentally sound, say police

Gunawan is mentally sound, say police

Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta, Jakarta

Gunawan Santosa, the prime suspect in the July 19 murders of
PT Aneka Sakti Bakti (Asaba) president director Boedyharto
Angsono and his bodyguard, is mentally fit, a police officer said
on Friday.

"A psychiatrist tested him (Gunawan), and the psychiatrist
told me that Gunawan is mentally fit and can give a statement to
police investigators," Jakarta Police chief of detectives Sr.
Comr. Mathius Salempang said city police headquarters.

Salempang said police investigators did not believe the
psychiatric evaluation was necessary, but agreed to at the
insistence of Gunawan's lawyer, Farhat Abbas.

Farhat had said his client was suffering from depression and
required psychiatric care.

Police want to question Gunawan about the murders of
Boedyharto and his bodyguard Second Sgt. Edy Siyep, a member of
the Army's Special Forces, as well as the attempted murder of PT
Asaba finance director Paulus Tejakusuma on June 6.

Also implicated in the case are four marines who are suspected
of carrying out the murders and attempted murder on Gunawan's
orders.

The marines, who have been detained by the Navy's Military
Police since July 31, have been identified only as Second Lt.
SAS, Second Corp. SR, Second Corp. FH and First Pvt. SS. All four
are members of Marine Infantry Brigade 2 based in Cilandak.

Navy chief Adm. Bernard Kent Sondakh said on Thursday Navy
officials hoped to question Gunawan to cross-check the statements
of the four marines.

Salempang said the police would make Gunawan available if he
was needed to complete the dossiers on the marines.

"We have a good relationship with the Navy. We have no
problems with that," Salempang said.

In related development, Governor Sutiyoso said the subdistrict
heads of Gunung Sahari and Kemayoran in Central Jakarta and
Pademangan in North Jakarta were not connected to the three
counterfeit identity cards found on Gunawan at the time of his
arrest.

According to the governor, the signatures on the three IDs
were not those of the subdistricts heads.

"The subdistricts heads were not involved in the process of
making the IDs. Gunawan counterfeited their signatures," Sutiyoso
said on Friday.

The governor said on Thursday the three subdistrict heads had
been questioned about the counterfeit IDs.

At the time of his arrest, Gunawan was carrying three ID cards
with the names Kevin Martin, Indra Amapta and Dustin Bakrie.