Woman found dead at boardinghouse

JAKARTA (JP): A 43-year-old woman was found dead in her boardinghouse on Jl. Pegangsaan I, Rawa Terate subdistrict in East Jakarta yesterday morning.

A forensic examination of the woman, Muksinah, found injuries suggesting she might have been murdered between 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. yesterday.

The unmarried woman was on the administrative staff at a tax service office in Senen, Central Jakarta. Her landlady found the body after becoming suspicious over Muksinah's failure to show up in the morning.

"Muksinah never failed to say goodbye to her landlady every time she left for work," Luci, one of the deceased's friends, said.

Luci quoted the landlady as saying that she did not see anybody enter Muksinah's room. The windows and the door were reportedly properly shut.

Zulhasmar Syamsu, a forensic expert at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, said Muksinah died of suffocation, judging from an injury on her neck.

"She had a choke mark around her neck. Her lips were injured. There was also a mark on her right chest suggesting she had been hit by a blunt object," he said.

Zulhasmar also said that there were no indications of rape. (ivy)