Police looking for suspect in Soekarno-Hatta Airport shooting

JAKARTA (JP): Police are looking for at least one person involved in a shooting incident at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Wednesday, an officer said last night.

City Police spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said his office was trying to collect more information to help clarify the incident.

"We have questioned some eyewitnesses. But we still need more information on the case," he told The Jakarta Post.

The motive for the attack was not known.

Aritonang declined to say whether his office had identified the shooters.

"We are still investigating the case," was all he would say.

Two men were wounded in the shooting incident at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the airport's Terminal F arrival hall.

Police identified the two victims as Isren Saat, 52, an executive at Garuda Indonesia airline's Tokyo office, and a Japanese expatriate Konishi, 47.

The two had arrived on a flight from Tokyo.

Isren, a resident of Jatibening, Bekasi, was shot in the nose, while Konishi had a shoulder wound.

The two have received medical treatment at Pluit hospital in North Jakarta.

Aritonang said the police were examining several pieces of evidence found at the scene, including the projectile which was taken out of Konichi's shoulder.

Konichi is the second foreigner to fall victim to crime in the capital this year.

Another Japanese, Takeshi Yamamoto, 32, was stabbed to death in an armed robbery in South Jakarta a week earlier.

He and compatriot expatriate Okada, 49, were robbed by a taxi driver and his accomplices in Sawangan, West Java. Okada survived with a minor stab injury.

The suspects are still at large.

The two Japanese got into the taxi outside a karaoke bar in Blok M, South Jakarta. (cst)