Legislator loses Rp 32m in parked car

BEKASI: Legislator Daday Hidayat of the Democratic Party lost more than Rp 32 million (US$3,440) as his parked Ford Everest was broken into, early on Tuesday morning.

Daday reported that he lost Rp 22 million in cash, a Nokia 9500 Communicator valued at just under Rp 10 million, four House of Representatives/People's Consultative Assembly gold pins and other documents.

The legislator parked his car at a carwash near his house in Margajaya, Bekasi, at around 1 a.m. and asked an employee there to watch his vehicle.

At around 5 a.m., one of his neighbors told him that the left window of his car was broken. "I think the burglar must have broke into the car sometime between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.," Daday surmised.

He reported the case to the Bekasi Police. Bekasi Police chief Sr. Comr. Edward Syah Pernong said the police had already questioned witnesses and based on their information, the police suspected the burglars, probably more than two people, had come in a red Suzuki Carry. -- Antara