Tampubolon dossiers are still with police
Tampubolon dossiers are still with police
JAKARTA (JP): The East Jakarta prosecutor's office, which last
month returned the dossiers on the four suspects in the murder of
Brig. Gen. TMF Tampubolon to the police for more work, are still
waiting.
"We haven't received the dossiers back as of today,"
prosecutor Bonar Gultom told The Jakarta Post in a telephone
interview yesterday.
According to Gultom, from the East Jakarta prosecutor's office
in charge of criminal affairs, he had asked the East Jakarta
police precinct to complete the dossiers with results of a
laboratory study.
"It takes quite a long time. We asked them to submit a lot of
laboratory reports," he said, stressing that he could understand
why the police are having trouble finishing the job.
The East Jakarta police precinct, however, believes that they
have returned the dossiers to Gultom's office with minor
revisions and flatly rejects newspaper reports saying that the
original documents lacked vital information.
"We have handed them back to the prosecutor's office a few
days ago," Lt. Col. Susmono Soesilo told reporters two weeks ago,
adding that the police had only forgotten to enclose photographs
of the suspects and that one of suspects had not yet signed his
dossier.
Susmono said that the four, arrested several hours after the
murder, are Rusdi Abdul Rahman, 24, Hendrik Setyawan, 25,
Rudiyanto, 24, and Lukman, 30.
The police documents say that three of the four suspects
stabbed Tampubolon after an altercation on Jl. Griya Wartawan in
East Jakarta on April 6.
The three allegedly used a bayonet, a machete and a knife to
kill Tampubolon, who was an expert staff at the Armed Forces
headquarters and a former commander of an elite red-beret squad.
Rusdi, a security guard at a house close to the scene, is
alleged to have stabbed Tampubolon with a bayonet while Hendrik,
a construction worker, gashed the general with a machete, and
Lukman, a motorcycle taxi driver, with a knife
The 54-year-old general was stabbed 11 times and died half an
hour later at the nearby hospital. (09)