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)