Tommy's murder plan exposed

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra once planned to kill M. Syafiuddin Kartasasmita himself, according to the indictment presented to the Central Jakarta District Court on Wednesday.

Tommy was found guilty of corruption by Syafiuddin in October 2000 but it was not until mid 2001 that Tommy started to plan the murder, it said.

In June 2001, Tommy asked his friends, Dedi S. Yusuf and Dody Hardjito, to survey Syafiuddin's house in Cipayung, East Jakarta. Later in the same month, Tommy obtained diagrams of Syafiuddin's address and of the homes of the two other justices who convicted him.

The defendant then met Dody several times to discuss the murder plan.

"Wanna be rich?" he asked. Dody refused as it was dangerous.

"Why are you afraid? Just give me a ride, I will do the shooting," he said.

Dody still refused and introduced Tommy to Maulawarman, who agreed to drive Tommy.

Mid in July Dody told Maulawarman that Tommy wanted to hire another man to help carry out the murder plan.

Maulawarman told Dody that Noval Hadad would do the job for Rp 100 million.

On the same day, Dody gave Maulawarman US$10,000.

On July 18, the defendant showed Maulawarman seven guns and taught him how to use one of them.

On July 19, Tommy and Maulawarman went to Cipayung on a motorcycle, but after arriving near Syafiuddin's house, Tommy canceled the plan to shoot the judge because there were many people around.

Tommy later learned that Syafiuddin did not stay in Cipayung, but in Kemayoran, North Jakarta.

On July 25, Tommy showed Maulawarman the address of Syafiuddin's house on the map, and gave him two guns.

The following day, Maulawarman rode a motorcycle with Noval in the passengers' seat. They followed Syafiuddin from his house and Noval shot him dead on his way to work.