Moonlighting marine found dead at warehouse

Moonlighting marine found dead at warehouse

JAKARTA (JP): A 29-year-old member of the Marine Corps of the
Indonesian Navy was found dead yesterday morning in front of the
huge warehouse gates where he spent his spare time to earn extra
money.

Corporal Isyanto, a part-time night guard at the warehouse of
PT Sinar Mas Andhika, a pipe supplier, was found still bleeding
and is believed to have been stabbed in the back with a sharp
weapon by an unidentified group of vandals. He was on guard at a
huge warehouse on Jl. Agung Karya IV Block D 8-10, Papanggo,
North Jakarta when the killing took place.

According to the newly-installed chief of the North Jakarta
police precinct, Lt. Col. Edi Darnadi, the dead body of the
National Navy Headquarters member was found at 5:30 a.m. by the
warehouse's security guard, Jangkung Sumarno, 33, who was
scheduled to take over the next 12-hour shift beginning at 6 a.m.

"We couldn't find any indications as to the number of
assailants," Edi said. "But, it may have been more than one."

Speaking from the scene of the murder, Jangkung and a number
of his colleagues said that Isyanto was alone at that night.

According to Jangkung, the company employed Isyanto and his
two other friends from the Navy Headquarters to work the night
shift as warehouse guards and used three other civilian security
guards for morning hours.

Lt. Col. Edi said that a set of Amano time clocks were found
missing at the scene. An unnamed security guard at the warehouse
strongly believed that the motive of the murder was to steal the
clocks.

"In the past few weeks, at least four table clocks have been
stolen from other warehouses nearby," he said.

According to him, a new second-hand clock, such as the one
lost at PT Sinar Mas Andhika, costs around Rp 2 million (US$915)
each on the black market. (bsr)