Yongki executed for triple murder
Yongki executed for triple murder
JAKARTA (JP): Karta Cahyadi, alias Yongki, convicted of a triple murder in the Central Javanese city of Surakarta, was executed in the early hours of yesterday morning in Kali Sari, East Jakarta.
"Yongki has just been executed in Kali Sari village," Head of the Central Java prosecutor's office Harry Moerdjono said in a press conference at the East Jakarta prosecutor's office yesterday, just one hour after the execution.
With Harry were Head of the Jakarta prosecutor's office Suyoto; Bagio Soepardi of the Surakarta Prosecutor's Office; Assistant for General Crimes at the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office Adenan Kasian; and spokesman for the Attorney General's Office Basrief Arief.
Harry, who was responsible for the execution process, said that the execution was carried out at 2:40 a.m. and that Yongki was pronounced dead one minute later.
Yongki, 35, a resident of Jakarta, was sentenced to death by the Surakarta district court in 1990 for the brutal murder, in February of that year, of three members of a family whose house he was burgling.
The house belonged to Utomo Kasidi, a relative of Yongki. The victims were Utomo's 11-year-old son Danny, 23-year old housemaid Lasiyem and Utomo's brother Sasongko Suryo, 40.
Harry said that Yongki was executed by a firing squad of 14 officers. Yongki was made to stand and closed his eyes.
Bagio Soepardi said Yongki did not say a single word in the last minutes before he was put to death.
"Yongki was silent from the time he was fetched from the Cipinang penitentiary in East Jakarta," Bagio said.
Yongki's body was later taken to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital where his corneas were removed, for donation, in accordance with his wishes. The executed man was buried at Pondok Rangon cemetery in East Jakarta at 2 p.m. yesterday.
Yongki's death brings to three the number of men executed by the Indonesian government this year. The first was a Malaysian drug dealer, Chang Ting Chong, alias Steven, who was executed in Jakarta; the second was an Indonesian man, Kacong Laranu, who murdered an entire family in North Sulawesi in 1985. (imn)