Police have no leads in murder of Suwarjo
Police have no leads in murder of Suwarjo
ID Nugroho, Bondowoso
Police still have no leads in Wednesday's murder of an executive
of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)'s
Bondowoso branch and his family.
As of Thursday, police could only say that Suwarjo, his wife
and son were murdered by professionals.
The chief of the Besuki Police, which oversees Bondowoso
regency in East Java province, Sr. Comr. Winarso, said the triple
murder was likely committed by more than one person.
The murderers were professional, evidenced by their ability to
gain entrance to Suwarjo's house and kill three people without
alerting any of the neighbors, he said.
Suwarjo, 60, his wife Wiwik, 60, and their son Dodi, 28, were
found murdered in their house on Jl. Diponegoro.
The murderers also apparently intentionally spilled blood in
several different places in Suwarjo's house, as well as in two
neighboring houses, owned by people police identified only as Y
and B. "This was apparently done to throw off the police,"
Winarso said.
Police have collected various pieces of evidence, including a
bloody T-shirt, tablecloth and pillowcase. The tablecloth was
found in the house of B.
Police have questioned 12 witnesses over the case, said
Bondowoso Police chief of detectives Comr. Daniel.
The murder of Suwarjo and his family is believed to have been
politically motivated. If this is the case, it would be the third
politically motivated murder in East Java in the past eight
months. Two members of the National Awakening Party (PKB) were
murdered in Lumajang and Jember regencies in December.
Sugiono, the head of the PDI-P's Bondowoso branch, however,
said he did not believe politics was the motive behind the
murders. He said he could not recall Suwarjo ever having a
dispute with other party members or members of rival parties.
Sugiono demanded the police solve the case as quickly as
possible in order to end speculation in Bondowoso.
Suwarjo's brother Surachman dismissed the possibility of a
family dispute being behind the murder, saying there were no
conflicts within the family over inheritances or any other
matter.