Three bodies found in 2 days

JAKARTA (JP): City police have recorded three dead bodies which were dumped at different places across the capital over the past two days, according to police reports.

Evidence of assault made by sharp and blunt objects were found on all three male bodies, the reports said.

The latest fatality was 32-year-old Derek Nauwe, who was found bleeding to death in front of the Gedung Bisnis building on Jl. S. Parman in West Jakarta at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

He was found with a stab wound to his chest and an injury to his ring finger.

On Wednesday night, an unidentified body in an early decomposed state was spotted by local residents of Pondok Kelapa in East Jakarta.

East Jakarta Police detectives chief Capt. Agus Irianto said the man was in his 40s. Local police, he said, were still waiting for the postmortem examination, which was carried out by doctors at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, to find out whether the man was murdered or not.

The third body was identified as 34-year-old Remy Kolibonso, who was found lying on a railway track by a local resident in Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta, on Tuesday morning.

The body had a stab wound to the back of the head and on the left side of the forehead.

A family member, Meike, said at the hospital morgue on Thursday that the family and police were still in the dark over what was the cause of death.

"We lost contact with him for quite a long time because we did not know his whereabouts and what he did for a living," Meike said. (08/06)