Man stabbed to death in robbery

JAKARTA (JP): A 28-year-old man, Ronny Andarwanta, died on the way to hospital from a stab wound he received in a robbery last Wednesday night on Jl. Benyamin Sueb in North Jakarta, the victim's wife said on Thursday.

Pudjiati, 25, told reporters at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital's morgue that she was informed by the Pademangan Police that her husband was found in a critical condition by residents of Jl. Benyamin Sueb at 11 p.m.

"Ronny worked as an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver to support our family. Usually at that hour, he was on his way home," said Pudjiati, a resident of Jl. Muara Bahari in Ancol, North Jakarta.

Pudjiati quoted a police report that her husband died on the way to Husada Hospital in Central Jakarta from a stab wound that pierced his right chest from behind. He was initially declared as unidentified.

The police later identified him after finding his motorbike, which was abandoned near Mitra Hospital in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, late on Wednesday evening. The police then checked the owner's identity with Jakarta Police Headquarters through the motorbike's registration number B 3064 JK, which was registered under the name of Nurdin.

"The police found Nurdin's address and later said that the motorbike had been sold to my husband," Pudjiati said.

The police, she added, assumed that the robber had decided to leave the motorbike in Kemayoran because it had ran out of gasoline.

"Police officers even had to stop at a gas station before they could take it to their office as evidence," she said.

Police seized as evidence Ronny's motorbike and a cake knife, which was tainted with blood and found near the victim's body. (06)