Taxi driver found dead
Taxi driver found dead
DEPOK: A taxi driver was found dead in Tapos subdistrict,
Cimanggis, Depok, on Monday at around 5.30 a.m.
Officers from Cimanggis police subprecinct have identified the
deceased as Murdedi, in his early 30s, who worked as a driver for
the Dian Taxi firm.
Uman Triakso, Dian Taxi's shift operations' head, confirmed
that the deceased was, in fact, Murdedi, who had been bound by
the neck, hands and feet when found.
Strangely however, Uman said that the taxi pool had received a
radio report from Murdedi around the time when he was found dead.
In fact, the police estimated that Murdedi had been dead from
about 2 a.m.
As of the time of going to press, the police had yet to find
Murdedi's taxi, license plate number B 2889 LU. --JP
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Tourism agency holds road shows
JAKARTA: The city administration will continue to focus on
attracting domestic tourists as they had greater potential than
foreign tourists given present circumstances, said Aurora
Tambunan, the head of the city's tourism agency, on Monday.
Therefore, the agency would hold road shows in several cities
across the country, including Medan in North Sumatra, Batam,
Denpasar in Bali, Balikpapan in East Kalimantan and Makassar in
South Sulawesi, to promote Jakarta as a tourist destination.
Aurora said that the number of domestic tourists visiting
Jakarta reached 9 million every year, while the number of foreign
tourists only amounted to 1.3 million.
"We hope that through these road shows people from other
cities across the country will be encouraged to visit the
capital, which offers various kinds of tours, such as shopping
tours, cultural tours and maritime tours, as well as conventions
and a glimpse of the metropolitan lifestyle," she said.
Aurora said that the capital's tourism industry had been
severely hit by bombings in the recent past, including the early
August Marriott blast. However, she said that the industry had
been gradually recovering. --Antara
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Thieves hit Guess counter
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Thieves hit Guess counter
JAKARTA: Thieves ransacked a Guess watches counter on the
first floor of the Kelapa Gading Mall in North Jakarta on Monday
morning, and escaped with hundreds of wrist watches.
Total losses amounted to more than Rp 500 million.
A counter employee reporting for work at 9 a.m. found that the
top of the glass counter had been broken, and the side windows
smashed.
Hundreds of watches on show in the counter's display cases had
been stolen.
The prices of Guess watches range from between US$ 27 (about
232,000) and $225, according to the Guess homepage.
"This is the second robbery of the counter over the past
several months," said Hendra Pratomo of the Guess center's
general affairs department.
Hendra reported the case to Jakarta Police Headquarters. He
said he was impatient with the slow progress being made by the
Kelapa Gading police subprecinct in investigating the earlier
robbery. --JP.
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Bombing drill panica passers-by
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Bombing drill panics passers-by
JAKARTA: A bomb planted in a green Datsun car exploded at
11.15 a.m. across from the Artha Graha building in the Sudirman
Central Business District in South Jakarta.
In minutes, the police bomb squad had cordoned off the scene,
and the deafening sirens of arriving fire trucks filled the air.
Several women in business attire who happened to be passing
near the blast site appeared terrified, and attempted to flee the
area with their hands over their ears.
However, their panic turned to laughter when they discovered
that the "bombing" was only a training exercise carried out
jointly by the police, fire brigade and security guards to
prepare for further terrorist attacks following the deadly
bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel on Aug. 5.
During the exercise, four people pretended to be dead victims,
and five others pretended to be suffering from severe injuries.
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