Matori's attacker buried

Matori's attacker buried

JAKARTA (JP): The decomposed body of the man who attacked the
chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Matori Abdul
Djalil, on March 5 was finally buried as an unidentified body at
Pondok Ranggon graveyard in East Jakarta on Monday.

The head of the morgue at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital,
Mardiono, said he finally took the decision without the
permission of the police since the body of the corpse was badly
decomposed.

"The morgue is currently under renovation and we have no room
to keep bodies for more than five days," he said.

Much of the equipment at the morgue, such as the freezers,
could not be fully operated during the renovation project,
Mardiono said.

The police, he said, only asked the hospital not to bury the
unknown body until it could be identified by his relatives.

But so far no one had claimed the body, Mardiono said.

The man was beaten to death by an angry crowd after he refused
to pay a fare to an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver in South
Jakarta, just a few minutes after the attack. Matori survived,
but with severe injuries to his hand and head.

The man's accomplice, later identified as Ahmad Tajuddin,
alias Sabar, was arrested some days later and identified the body
as Sarmo, alias Tarmo. (06)