Yesterday's crime roundup: Baby found in nasi uduk cart to drug trafficking
Jakarta (ANTARA) – A number of crime-related news items in Jakarta and the surrounding area on Tuesday (3/3) include a baby girl found in a nasi uduk cart in Pasar Minggu, and the Jakpus Police revealing drug-trafficking activity from November 2025 to February 2026. Here is the summary:
A baby girl, about two days old, was found in a nasi uduk cart in front of a resident’s home on Jalan Pejaten Raya RT 01/02, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, on Tuesday afternoon. ‘We have checked the location where a baby girl was found and she is believed to have been deliberately abandoned by someone responsible,’ said Pasar Minggu Police Chief Kompol Anggiat Sinambela in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The Metro Jaya Police confirmed a report from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) against Hasbi Hasan, the former Secretary of the Supreme Court, namely Linda Susanti. ‘Yes, that’s correct, in February 2026, regarding document falsification,’ said the Head of Public Relations of Metro Jaya Police, Kombes Pol Budi Hermanto, in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The Jakarta Pusat Metro Police uncovered a narcotics trafficking operation from November 2025 to February 2026, arresting 13 suspects and seizing a number of pieces of evidence, including 109.8 kilograms of methamphetamine (sab u-sabu). ‘There were eight priority cases with a total of 13 suspects who are part of a narcotics trafficking network based in Aceh, Sumatra, and Jakarta,’ said the Jakarta Pusat Police Chief Kombes Pol Reynold EP Hutagalung in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The Jakarta Selatan District Court (PN Jaksel) will hear the KPK’s response in the pretrial for the designation of suspect Mantan Menteri Agama Yaqut Cholil Qoumas related to the alleged corruption in the additional hajj quota for the 2023-2024 pilgrimage on Wednesday, 4 March 2026. ‘The hearing is postponed to the 4th, namely the KPK’s answer, with the rebuttal and rejoinder at 10.00 WIB,’ said judge Sulistyo Muhammad Dwi Putro in the pretrial hearing at PN Jakarta Selatan, on Tuesday.
Out of jealousy, a woman identified as S (19) was beaten by her boyfriend, a man identified as R (24), at her home in the Jakarta Islamic Center (JIC) Koja, North Jakarta, due to jealousy. ‘I became the victim of a beating carried out by my own boyfriend. I have a bruised eye. I was also beaten in other parts before,’ the victim identified as S told investigators at the North Jakarta Police Headquarters on Tuesday.