Rp 11m stolen from department store

JAKARTA (JP): Thieves have stolen Rp 11 million (US$4,700) in cash and a bundle of clothes from the Ramayana department store on Jl. Wahid Hasyim, Central Jakarta.

"The police are questioning six Ramayana employees, including two security guards and a warehouse attendant," a police officer at the Central Jakarta Police precinct said yesterday.

Mochammad Yamin, an assistant to the security coordinator of the Ramayana Group, said the thieves might have entered the building on Thursday night by breaking ceilings of the third floor.

The thieves then went up to the fifth floor, stealing about Rp 11 million from cash boxes, Yamin said.

He said the thieves left a hammer near a safe deposit box. "They apparently tried to open the box, but they couldn't," he added. (jun)