Three commit suicide in Tangerang

Three commit suicide in Tangerang

The Jakarta Post, Tangerang

Three people were found dead here in different locations in
the past three days as they allegedly committed suicide while
distressed.

Sastro Atmojo, 80, who was found with stab wounds on Monday,
allegedly killed himself as he was stressed after his wife died.
The second person, Jumiem, 40, a housemaid, was found dead after
hanging herself in her employer's house on Monday after the death
of her mother and son after her husband had left her. A penniless
playboy and drunk, Irwan Gunawan, 23, was also found dead on
Friday by his mother, who had scolded him earlier in the day.

Sastro, a resident of Gebong village, Sangiang Jaya
subdistrict, was found dead in the bathroom by Soleh, his son, on
Monday morning, when the latter went to the bathroom at about 5
a.m. to perform his ritual ablutions.

Soleh said his father lay on the floor with three stab wounds
to his stomach and a knife near his body.

"My father suffered distress after my mother's death. My wife
and I had frequently foiled his attempts to commit suicide. We
even took him to Sumber Waras Hospital in West Jakarta in
August," he said.

Separately, Jumiem's employer, Erika, who lives in Batu Ceper
subdistrict, said that her maid had washed her children's clothes
on Monday morning. But at 12:40 a.m., she found the maid dead.

She said that Jumiem, who hailed from Ngawi, Central Java,
suffered from paranoia and frequently felt scared without any
apparent reason.

"I think it was because Jumiem's mother died last moth, and a
week later her son also died, while her husband married another
woman," she said.

Meanwhile, Irwan was found lying dead on the kitchen floor by
his mother, Ong Yok Lu, 40, at 7 p.m. on Friday at his parent's
house in Cimone Mas Permai residential complex, Karawaci
district. He had allegedly committed suicide by drinking
insecticide.

His mother, a bread vendor, said that earlier in the day she
had scolded her unemployed son because he was always asking for
money to date girls and frequently returned home drunk.

She said that she made a living by selling bread as she lived
separately from her husband, while Irwan, her only child, had not
worked since he graduated from high school.

"My son was jobless and always asked for money
from me, but he spent the money I gave him on dating
girls and buying liquor, while I worked hard every day," she
said.