Two school students arrested for killing
JAKARTA (JP): Police arrested two of four students from a privately run technical high school yesterday for the beating and stabbing to death of a student from another private technical senior high school on Friday.
Chief of the West Jakarta Police Detectives Capt. Ronie F. Sompie said one of the suspects, identified as Edi Suprapto, 20, was turned in by his parents to the Tambora police subprecinct Sunday night.
"We appreciated what was done by Edi's parents," Ronie said.
Meanwhile, the other suspect, Wahyudi, was picked up from his home on Jl. Kalianyar in West Jakarta yesterday. The student admitted only to having beaten the victim, Sularto. He said it was Edi who stabbed him to death.
Edi previously said that he and his other three friends, Wahyudi, Engkus and Muharto, beat Sularto on Jl. Latumeten in Grogol, West Jakarta.
He finally admitted to stabbing the victim with a knife after the police showed him the knife believed to have been used in the killing.
Ronie said that the police will soon arrest the remaining two students, Engkos and Muharto.
"They are in hiding with the help of their parents. But we have identified their whereabouts," he said.
At least three students died in brawls in West Jakarta, Central Jakarta and North Jakarta last week, including Sularto.
Bachtiar Effendi, a student from a technical senior high school, was stabbed to death by one of three students from a private senior high school on Jl. Kramat Raya in Central Jakarta on Tuesday evening. The death of Bachtiar prompted a riot on the following day, when hundreds of his friends ran amok, assaulting passers-by on the street in front of the Central Jakarta police precinct.
Also on Friday, Jamot, a student of a technical senior high school, was killed in a brawl involving students of a senior high school on Jl. Jembatan Tiga, Penjaringan district in North Jakarta.
All the alleged killers are still at large.
At least 12 students died in separate brawls in the past six months in the city. (jun)