Two street hoodlums jailed for attacking two police officers
Two street hoodlums jailed for attacking two police officers
JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta District Court yesterday
sentenced two street hoodlums to four years and three years and
ten months respectively for attacking police officers in the Blok
M shopping area.
Presiding Judge Ida Bagus Ngurah Somya stated that Amirzan
Liskaloho and Zulkifli Nahumaruri were proven guilty of attacking
Capt. Arman Depari and Lt. Budi Prasetyo on March 6, when the
police officers were parking their car at the shopping area.
Eyewitness testimony and material evidence proved that Amirzan
and Zulkifli punched and kicked Arman, Somya said.
The fact that the convicts' crime caused public unrest
aggravated the offense, he added.
Budi suffered fatal stab wounds to the abdomen in the
incident, while Arman was wounded.
The court ruled that the two defendants had no part in the
stabbing of Budi. "Lt. Budi Santosa was stabbed by other
suspects," Somya said.
Police sources earlier said Frenky Jufrimaudu and Mario
Lesbanu, two other gang members, killed the officer.
Mario was shot dead by police for resisting arrest soon after
the Blok M incident, while Jefry died in police custody of a
serious illness, police said.
Prosecutor Usman previously urged that the court sentence the
two attackers to five years each.
The two police officers were attacked by a group of street
hoodlums, including Amirzan Liskaloho, Zulkifli Nahumaruri, Reza
Lawalata, Idris Tuarita, Jimiko Danyanto, Stevanus Van Capele,
Robinson Timisela, Frenky Jufrimaudu, and Mario Lesbanu.
Resa Lawalata and Idris Tuarita are being tried at the same
court for similar offenses.
Verdicts for them will be read on Dec. 4.
The attack on the police officers resulted in a massive
operation against suspected street hoodlums in Jakarta and other
towns.
Police and military officers arrested more than 15,000 street
hoodlums in Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi. Some of them
underwent reeducation courses at the city police and military
headquarters and Islamic boarding schools. While dozens of them
were brought to court, most were eventually released. (29)