Police Reveal Menteng Robbery Linked to Colleague's Alleged Premeditated Murder Attempt

Jakarta police have revealed that a robbery and stabbing of a man with the initials MHA (30) on Jalan Pati, Menteng, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (16/6/2026) was allegedly linked to a premeditated murder. The incident was said to be a scenario created by a female colleague with the initials USP (31) to carry out an attempted murder.

“The articles applied are Article 466 concerning maltreatment and Article 459 in conjunction with Article 17 paragraph 1, or attempted murder with planning,” said Central Jakarta Police Criminal Investigation Unit Head AKBP Roby Heri Saputra during a press conference at the Central Jakarta Metro Police on Friday (19/6/2026).

Roby stated that his office initially received a report from the Menteng Police Sector on Tuesday (16/6/2026) at 4 p.m. Western Indonesia Time. The report mentioned one injured male victim, MHA, and one female, USP, as a witness present at the crime scene.

Initially, the victim, who was the president director, and the witness, who was a commissioner of an IT company and a colleague, were at the witness’s residence. The witness explained that the house was suddenly robbed by two people. She said the two individuals were involved in an argument with the victim on the upper floor. The witness, who was on the ground floor, heard the commotion and went upstairs carrying a frying pan and a stun gun for protection.

“It turned out the two people had detained the victim MHA. To release the victim, the witness handed over her valuables, consisting of a 200-gram gold bar and other gold jewellery weighing approximately 300 grams. After the items were handed over, the two perpetrators then injured MHA,” Roby said.

Police received this report as the initial statement from the witness at the scene. Subsequently, after conducting a scientific investigation, police found inconsistencies in the witness’s statement, the physical evidence, and the statements of other witnesses who were examined.

“From the initial statement of witness USP, we suspected it was false. After we discovered the truth, it turned out that no two people had entered the house; rather, the perpetrator of the maltreatment inflicted upon MHA was actually USP herself,” he said.

Furthermore, police also found that a trigger for investigators’ suspicion was the considerable time gap between the incident and the report to the police. “The initial suspicion was the time of the incident and the time of reporting. Because the time from the incident until the witness reported it was quite long, more than one hour,” Roby said.

The perpetrator eventually admitted to her actions by recounting the true chronology. Roby revealed that at the time, the perpetrator and the victim were alone at the perpetrator’s house. The victim was staying overnight because they had just returned from an out-of-town assignment together and were scheduled to go to Bali the next day.

At that moment, the perpetrator asked the victim to hold a cloth connected to an electric cable, causing him to be electrocuted and fall for approximately six to eight seconds. As the victim remained unconscious, the perpetrator panicked and proceeded to assault the victim using a nitrogen canister, a frying pan, and a knife. The victim sustained seven stab wounds from the incident.

Thus, police disclosed that the case, which initially appeared to be a robbery ending in a stabbing, was in fact an attempted murder between the perpetrator, who was the victim’s superior, and the victim.