Police dispose of explosives at sea
Police dispose of explosives at sea
JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to render ineffectual the recently
seized explosives, the Jakarta Police on Thursday supervised the
sinking of 1,669 explosive devices in the Ancol sea at Mutiara
beach.
"The sea has become a temporary safe house for these
explosives now," Jakarta Police chief of detectives Sr. Comr.
Harry Montolalu laughingly told reporters at the Marina Ancol
Harbor in North Jakarta.
Put into a huge fishing net, the explosive devices were sunk
by officers of the National Police bomb squad into the waters of
Mutiara beach, right behind the Sea and Air Police Corps station
(Airud) in Penjaringan subdistrict, North Jakarta.
"The Tanjung Priok Port (KP3) Police are responsible for the
security of these explosives, which have become police evidence.
This is being done so that the fuse on each of them becomes
completely wet and ineffective," Harry said.
"Otherwise a little heat could ignite some of them and that
becomes dangerous."
As reported earlier, the Jakarta Police special crimes
detection unit have arrested two men whom they are currently
questioning and are seeking another following the discovery of
1,669 small explosive devices in a warehouse in Penjaringan on
Tuesday afternoon.
Harry said earlier on Wednesday that the explosives were
imported from a Chinese factory and had arrived in Jakarta by
sea.
He identified the factory as Sunny International Fireworks Co.
Ltd. and those arrested were warehouse owner Suwandi, alias
Along, 37, and warehouse security guard Roberto Wijaya Oei, 44.
Harry said that the explosives were illegal, since they had
been brought into Jakarta using a police permit for the "import
of firecrackers."
Having led the raid on the Penjaringan warehouse, located on
Jl. Muara Baru Ujung No. 2A, Jakarta Police's special crimes unit
chief Comr. Tatok Sudjiarto said on Wednesday that police were
currently searching for the explosives' owner, identified as Oei
Asin, who is currently at large.
"Even his wife, Then Kim Tjien, has fled. The family reside on
Jl. Pasar Pagi in Roa Malaka subdistrict, North Jakarta," Tatok
said. (ylt)