Poulterer robbed, wife raped in Bekasi

Poulterer robbed, wife raped in Bekasi

JAKARTA (JP): Police are still trying to determine the
identities of the men who allegedly robbed a Bekasi poultry
breeding farm manager and then raped his wife in front of their
daughter on Tuesday.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna told reporters
yesterday that two men with possible knowledge of the robbery and
brutal rape in the Bantar Gebang subdistrict are still being
questioned.

But, Iman told The Jakarta Post, "we have not collected any
evidence of their roles in the crime and no one has been
detained."

Iman refused to give the identities of the two men being
questioned, but said that such crimes are generally committed by
neighbors of the victims.

"Police will search the Bantar Gebang neighborhood and will
question those we suspect," he said.

More than five men broke into the house of Yanto Subianto, the
farm manager, after overwhelming the security guard. The robbers
threatened to kill Yanto if he resisted or shouted for help. He
was then tied up and locked inside a bathroom.

The men trashed Yanto's private office before stealing 280
grams worth of jewelry and Rp 1 million cash. As the others were
about to leave, one of the robbers grabbed Yanto's wife,
identified only as Ya, and began raping her in front of her six-
year-old daughter.

None of Yanto's employees, who were sleeping in a building in
front of his house, heard any commotion until Yanto and his wife
shouted for help after the men had run away.

Yanto told the police he did not think he had enemies.
However, a poultry breeder, Teguh, said that PT Alvita Pratama,
which is developing the Kota Legenda housing complex, had asked
Yanto to sell his property, Pos Kota reported yesterday.

The daily also reported that the robbers had broken into the
house of a neighbor named Siti.

Siti said that at about 2:00 a.m. the men broke into her house
and threatened to kill her and her four children. The robbers
left after Siti gave them Rp 15,000. "One of the robbers almost
raped my 19-year-old daughter," Siti said, adding that the man
gave up after her daughter resisted.

An earlier gang rape case jolted Bekasi last July, when eleven
men robbed a local resident, Acan, of money and valuable goods
before raping his wife and two daughters in his presence.
(bsr/sur)