Woman stockbroker robbed of Rp 500m outside JSX

JAKARTA (JP): A female stock broker was allegedly robbed on Monday afternoon of Rp 500 million outside the Jakarta Stock Exchange tower in the busy Sudirman Central Business District in South Jakarta.

According to a police source, Nina, 38, was waiting for her driver when two people on a motorcycle approached. They brandished a gun, shot it into the air, and then snatched her satchel and rode off.

"It went so smoothly. Nina kept on screaming, but nobody came to her aid. What the tower's security guards were doing at that point, I have no idea," said the officer.

"It happened at about 3:30 p.m. She had US$50,000 (Rp 400 million), several million rupiah and cash cheques in that satchel, all of them amounting to Rp 500 million."

The officer added that Nina was the wife of a doctor at Pertamina Hospital in South Jakarta.

When contacted, South Jakarta chief of detectives Capt. Rycko Amelza Daniel said he had not yet been informed of the robbery.

He said the most recent robbery report concerned a Sunday midday robbery at the state-owned branch office of the Perum Pegadaian pawnshop on Jl. Wijaya in Kebayoran Baru. In the heist, the robbers managed to make off with nearly Rp 4 billion worth of gold and diamonds.

Rycko said police officers had focused their investigation on the interrogation of the two security officers of the pawnshop branch office.

Pegadaian's director of operations Dedi Kusdedi said earlier: "According to a guard, two robbers broke into the office through the steel gates."

"The sad part is that 99 percent of the things pawned at the Kebayoran Baru office are jewels, mostly diamonds and gold. This must have been pre-planned, but I can't say for sure."

Dedi said the security guards who came across the scene immediately reported the case to the South Jakarta Police precinct.

Rycko added that police detectives were still investigating the case. (ylt)