Thieves break into PPP official's car

JAKARTA: Auto thieves broke the left front window of a Sangyong sedan belonging to United Development Party (PPP) Jakarta branch leader Endin AJ Soefihara on Sunday.

The theft took place during a meeting between PPP leader and Vice President Hamzah Haz, and the National Awakening Party (PKB) chief patron Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, who is also former president, outside the president director of Bank Mandiri ECW Neloe's official house on Jl. Aditiawarman 20, South Jakarta -- an elite residential area where many high-ranking state officials live.

Thieves entered the car through the broken window, taking the car's audio system and television. Endin could not estimate the material losses he suffered.

A security guard at Neloe's house, Dwi Santoso, was quoted by Kompas Cyber Media as saying that the theft was a first for the heavily guarded area. -- JP