Jealous woman threatens girlfriend of former boyfriend
Jealous woman threatens girlfriend of former boyfriend
Abdul Khalik
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta
An intensely jealous woman has been detained for allegedly
threatening to blow up the school where the girlfriend of her ex-
boyfriend works in the United States.
"If you don't send your fiancee back to Indonesia before Jan.
31, I will place several bombs around Falls Church City Public
School, especially at George Mason High School," the Indonesian
woman, identified as EK, wrote to Kathryn Hopkins through the
school's e-mail late last year.
Hopkins works at George Mason High School in Virginia and is
about to marry to her fiance Dewa Putu Dirga, EK's ex-boyfriend.
The bomb threat caused panic at the school, which immediately
sent all of its students and teachers home, while calling the
police to check the school and its surroundings.
"Police closed the school until February 1, and checked the
whole area but found nothing," Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr.
Tjiptono told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
He said that EK sent the e-mail under the name of Sri
Kusumaningsih and Abdul Azis.
Earlier, EK sent letters and facsimiles to Kathryn asking her
to stay away from Dewa.
Tjiptono said that the U.S. police then informed the
Indonesian police about the bomb threat, and the Jakarta Police
cyber crime unit immediately investigated the case.
They interrogated all of Dewa's family members, including Dewa
Putu Sarba, Dewa Komang Arbawa, Desak Made Satriani, and Ngurah
Adi W.B., in Singaraja, Bali, in February.
Jakarta Police also sent a team to the U.S. and questioned
several witnesses there, including Falls Church principal Robert
W. Snee, Hopkins, Dewa, and police officer Stephen T. Rau.
"Based on the information we got from all of the witnesses, we
suspect that EK sent the e-mails as she has a motive. We arrested
her on March 7. We are now preparing the case file while EK is
still under detention," Tjiptono said.
He said that during police interrogation, EK revealed that she
was very jealous and hurt because she loved Dewa very much, and
did not want Dewa to leave her to marry another girl.
EK also admitted to police that she had told Dewa that if he
pursued his plan to marry Hopkins then she would hurt Dewa's
family.
Tiptono said the U.S. and Indonesian police took the bomb
threats seriously as they were afraid they were related to
terrorist groups, including Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) and two
Malaysian fugitive bombing masterminds Azahari bin Husin and
Noordin Moh. Top.
Azahari and Noordin, said to be members of JI, the al-Qaeda's
Southeast Asian regional terrorist network, are believed to have
masterminded the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people and
the JW Marriott Hotel attack, which claimed 12 lives and the
Sept. 9 Australian Embassy bombing that killed 11 people.