Police to search for more boys' bodies

JAKARTA (JP): Siswanto, the alleged sodomizer and murderer of 11 boys, yesterday admitted killing another boy in Jakarta, increasing the number of missing bodies to at least four.

Siswanto had earlier confessed to sodomizing and murdering nine street boys in Jakarta and two in Central Java.

Yesterday, he confessed he had killed another boy in Jakarta. The police have since said that the features of the latest missing boy do not match any of the eight bodies found.

Siswanto, a scavenger, is now being examined by a psychiatrist at the Central Jakarta Police station.

Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira confirmed he had received two reports of missing children from their parents in Jakarta.

"We are now searching for more bodies since the features of the reported missing boys does not match any of the eight bodies found," Abubakar told The Jakarta Post

He said Siswanto had admitted sodomizing and killing Abdilla, 10, and Abdul Rasyid, 11, after he saw pictures of the boys.

Abdilla's father Rahmat, who went to the police station yesterday, fainted when Siswanto said he had killed his son. Rahmat had shown Siswanto a picture of Abdilla.

Abdilla, a shoeshine boy at Senen market, Central Jakarta, disappeared on May 26. He was living with his aunt, Soliha, on Jl. Kembangan in the Kwitang subdistrict, Senen.

On Tuesday, Siswanto admitted that he had killed another boy, Rasyid, after Rasyid's mother, Rokiyah, arrived at the police station looking for Siswanto.

Rokiyah screamed and shouted at Siswanto when he admitted killing Rasyid.

"He deserves the death penalty," she cried.

The mother said that Siswanto was her neighbor at the Gaplok market in Senen. She said she had been looking for Rasyid since last year.

Witnesses had said that Siswanto had picked up Rasyid at his elementary school, she said. Initially, the police thought that Rasyid was one of the eight dead boys found in the city, but the police have since said he was not one of them.

Central Jakarta police detectives arrested Siswanto at a railway station in Tegal, Central Java, on July 27.

Four of the eight boys whose bodies have been found were killed at the defunct Kemayoran airport in Central Jakarta. The other four were found in Pondok Kopi, East Jakarta. (jun)