Man gets 8 years for killing

JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta District Court has sentenced a professional "three-in-one" passenger to eight years in jail for killing an alleged hoodlum in Tanah Abang.

Prosecutor Rudy Yulianto said over the weekend that Waiman, 27, was found guilty and sentenced by the court in a trial led by Judge Madnyono on Thursday.

"Waiman's lawyer appealed the verdict while I'm still considering whether to also make an appeal," Rudy told The Jakarta Post.

He said Waiman, from Ngawi, East Java, was found guilty of killing M. Faisal alias Soni under Pejompongan bridge in Tanah Abang in August 1995.

Rudy said Waiman, a bus conductor, was arrested on Jl. Senopati in South Jakarta on March 3 when he was temporarily working as a three-in-one passenger.

The defendant told the court earlier that his arrest was engineered by two officers, Oloan and Jimi Nainggolan of Tanah Abang Police subprecinct, in an attempt to earn a promotion.

He said he only knew Soni as a notorious hoodlum in the area and admitted to having been attacked by Soni and his friend, Ujang, in 1995.

Waiman's lawyer, Esther I. Jusuf from the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, said that the defendant was in another place at the time of crime, but did not mention the place. (jun)