Police seeks S'pore murder probe results
Police seeks S'pore murder probe results
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian police have called on their
counterparts in Singapore to provide them with the latest
investigation results of the killing of an Indonesian student
there early this week, an NCB-Interpol officer said.
"The investigation is purely theirs. We'll join the case only
if there's a possibility that the suspect is an Indonesian or if
the killing had something to do with someone here," newly-
installed NCB-Interpol secretary Col. Wayan Ardjana told The
Jakarta Post yesterday.
The latest investigation results conducted by the Singaporean
police would be valuable information for the Indonesian police,
he said.
"In the meantime, we can do nothing unless they ask for help.
And such police cooperation is common between Indonesia and
Singapore," Wayan said.
The victim, identified as Dini Haryati, 19, was found dead
half-naked Tuesday in the bushes of a park near the Woodlands
underground station in the northern part of the island state.
Reports said that her body was found about one kilometer away
from her apartment in the Woodlands new residential area.
Bruises were found on her neck, forehead and abdomen, while
the back of her skull was broken, Antara reported yesterday.
It quoted an official at the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore,
Priyono, as saying that the autopsy and postmortem examination
conducted by Singapore General Hospital indicated that the woman
had been raped and severely beaten.
Dini's body arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
yesterday afternoon. After being briefly kept at her family's
residence in East Jakarta's Pondok Bambu housing complex, her
body was driven to a cemetery in Rangkasbitung, West Java, for
burial.
Dini was the daughter of Ustam Dinata, the director of
operational affairs at state-owned Bukopin Bank.
She was a student at the Bandung College of Tourism in West
Java and was in Singapore for a five-month job training at the
Albert Court Hotel. She was scheduled to complete the program
next week.
According to her roommate, she had not returned to her
apartment since Sunday. Her friends believed she had spent the
night at another friend's residence as she often did.
In Bandung, the dean in charge of her college, Demson Goeltom,
said Dini was one of 109 students sent to Singapore for the job
training program since July last year.
"We had five students, including Dini, at the Albert Court
Hotel," Goeltom told reporters.
He said that Dini was a third-semester hotel administration
student.
The overseas job training program for the college's students
has lasted for 11 years.
A friend of Dini, Andi Nadya Matalatta, recalled that Dini was
a smart and friendly student.
Goeltom expressed hope that Dini's death might not affect her
other colleagues who were still studying abroad. (bsr/43)