Kontras releases sketch of KPA kidnapping suspect
Kontras releases sketch of KPA kidnapping suspect
JAKARTA (JP): The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims
of Violence (Kontras) will disseminate a sketch of a man it
believes was an accomplice in the alleged abduction of four
activists of the Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) last month.
The man, estimated to be in his 20s, is thought to be the
person who bought airplane tickets bound for Jakarta from the
Giantra Travel Bureau in Semarang, Central Java. The tickets,
reserved under aliases, were then used to fly the activists back
to Jakarta.
Kontras chairman Munarman said the owner of Giantra, Gianto,
and staffer Wawan helped the commission draw a sketch of the
young man's face, which will be disseminated to the police
provincial headquarters.
The man is about 1.8 meters in height, with a dark complexion
and a thin moustache. He has buck teeth and long, curly,
shoulder-length hair.
Gianto and Wawan stated that the man's accent was not
Javanese.
The man reportedly went to the Giantra office on Jl. MT
Haryono on Aug. 24, 2000, at about 5 p.m. when the travel bureau
was about to close.
He bought two Semarang-Jakarta tickets, and one each for
Yogyakarta-Jakarta and Surakarta-Jakarta, all dated Aug. 25,
2000, Gianto said.
He said the man wore a wide-brimmed hat, shorts with two
pockets on the hip and a brown shirt.
Gianto said the man paid in Rp 100,000 banknotes for all the
tickets, worth Rp 1.2 million (US$141).
The man gave Gianto a cellular phone number, 0818917477, under
the name of Asep, so that Gianto could advise him if any of the
flights were delayed.
The four activists -- Anton Sulton, Idham Kurniawan, Usep
Setiawan and Muh. Hafiz Asdam -- allegedly went missing on Aug.
14, 2000 after they staged a hunger strike during the Annual
Session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), demanding
agrarian reform.
The four eventually turned up in Jakarta on Aug. 27 after
returning from towns in Central Java.
After claiming to suffer from mental trauma, the four
activists were taken in by Kontras and received psychiatric
treatment.
The police plan to question the four whenever they are ready
to make a statement. (bby)