University student found dead at home

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A 19-year-old student, Marco Imannuel Sibih, was found dead at his home in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, on Monday at 8 p.m. He died from blood loss caused by stab wounds.

Police suspect the murderer is a man but have not named a suspect.

Police said the housemaid, identified as EM, 22, suffered a gash to the neck but survived.

Pasar Minggu Police chief Comr. Didik has not commented on the progress of the investigation.

Marco's relatives declined to comment, except to claim that was a robbery gone bad.

However police sources, who requested anonymity, dismissed the possibility of robbery, saying that nothing valuable had gone missing except for Marco's cell phone. Marco was home on holiday from Australia, where went to university.

The sources also said that EM had appeared to have been raped.

Police said a neighbor, Rani, heard a woman scream in the house belonging to Romeo Sibih at about 8 p.m. Romeo owns a BMW showroom in Cipete, South Jakarta.

Rani told her son Heri to check the neighbor's house. On the way to the house, Heri met with neighbors Pian and Mail, who also heard the scream.

When they arrived at the house, they saw Marco's sister Melisa Sibih, 16, running toward the 2.5-meter high gate. She opened the gate for the neighbors, who rushed through the open garage door.

The three men found EM lying facedown beside one of the family's parked cars. Upon checking that EM was still breathing, they called a 24-hour health clinic doctor.

They then checked the house and found Marco's body in the living room. The room was covered in blood.

Marco's blood was also found in the garage, where it is thought the killer tracked it in.

According to the neighbors, the Sibih family never received strangers, indicating that they knew the killer.

Police sources said that the preliminary investigation pointed to H, a childhood friend of Marco's. The sources quoted Romeo as saying that he was with his wife Safernia when EM called them at around 5 p.m. and informed them that H had been at the house for an hour.

Romeo and Safernia suspected that H was on drugs and had previously suggested that their son end his friendship with him.