Three arrested for rape in Bekasi
JAKARTA (JP): Acting on a tip-off from the victims, Bekasi police on Tuesday morning arrested three men believed to have robbed a couple and raped the woman a few hours earlier at the lonely Bekasi Stadium in Caringin Jaya subdistrict.
According to police, the three -- Ruslan, 30, Feri Agustin Yohana, 28, and Iwan Wibawa, 24 -- first robbed LG, 49, and the woman SN, 34, before encircling the man's throat with a sickle while one of them raped SN.
The status of the relationship between LG and SN is confused as Bekasi police chief Lt. Col. Adjie Rustam Ramdja identified them as uncle and niece, while Greater Jakarta police spokesman Lt. Col. Edward Aritonang named the two as a married couple.
Police quoted LG and SN as saying that they were waiting for a public minivan at a bus shelter near the Bekasi Stadium at about 9 p.m. Monday when the gang of three approached and -- with their sharp weapons drawn at the victims -- dragged the couple into the empty stadium.
There, the two were forced to hand over their cash worth Rp 55,000 and LG's wristwatch to the crooks.
According to Aritonang, Ruslan raped the woman after grabbing Rp 35,000 from her.
He said the victims then managed to escape and reported the incident to the nearby police, who then rushed to the stadium to question several witnesses.
In the early hours of Tuesday, the local police "managed to arrest the suspects at their respective houses in Bekasi," Aritonang said.
Ruslan was arrested while sleeping at his house in the Kejagung housing complex.
"The suspect was probably tired after raping the woman. Police had no difficulties arresting him," Aritonang said.
Feri was apprehended at his house on Jl. Komodo Raya and Iwan at his home on Jl. Guntur, he added.
All of the suspects were jobless people who often hung around at the stadium.
According to officer Adjie Rustam, the rape victim underwent a medical examination on Tuesday.
"She's still shocked over the incident," he explained.
But, he said that LG was the victim's uncle and not her husband.
The incident was the latest of a series of rape cases in the Greater Jakarta area in the past few months.
On Aug. 13, police arrested six young men for raping a teenage girl at a boarding house on Jl. Wijaya I, Kebayoran, South Jakarta.
The men gave the 15-year-old girl a barbiturate pill before raping her.
A week later, two men were apprehended for the rape of a female student at her boarding house in North Jakarta. The suspects were construction workers who had duplicated the boarding house key. (jun)