Woman slapped in road rage incident

Wed, 09/17/2008 10:23 AM  |  City

JAKARTA: A six-months pregnant woman and her husband said they were assaulted hit by a passenger in a car with a military license plate in the center of the city Saturday.

The woman was driving near Monas when another car with military plates back-ended her car, tempointeraktif.com reported.

The sedan drove away but the woman drove after it and stopped it. She demanded the driver's identity card and driving license.

Her husband, driving another car, soon joined her and they drove away from the scene together. However, the military sedan followed them and blocked them on Jl. Sudirman. A man emerged from the back seat, went to the other car and grabbed the husband through the open window. He order the husband to get out of his car and hit him twice.

The woman tried to intervene and she was also struck.

The unidentified man then asked for the driver's documents and left.

The couple tried to report the case to the police but were turned away. The police reasoned that any report against military personnel should be file with the military police. --JP

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Ramos Horta (not verified) — Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:56pm

The TNI Military raped nuns in East Timor..are you surprised they smacked an Indonesian motorist? Maybe she is lucky that's all that happened to her.

Ed (not verified) — Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:50am

Just look at how military personnel cars are driven. Along with Harley bikers (surprise, surprise: some of them are military personnel!), they are the thugs of the road who feel they can do whatever they want with impunity. A civil society means law abiding and respectful citizens and a police force of courageous and responsible officers, not a bunch of self-serving, just 'duit' (money) types.

Suhendro (not verified) — Tue, 09/23/2008 - 9:44am

This happens over and over again because the military feels that they have the power to do whatever they want. Get over it losers, your power is weakening not because of political reasons but because you no longer have the interest of the people anymore! you only care about your illegal investments and your morals have all depreciated to nothing more than street thugs. Citizens of indonesia, stand up to their authority Because they have not ever done anything good for the country. Just look at the 1998 riots with pictures of soldiers just standing around while the mobs run amok! they were selling their services to the highest bidder and had no regard for the security of the country! I hope this country wake up to the notion that the military is just a division of the incompetent government for corrupting more money.

Eka Pangestu (not verified) — Sat, 09/20/2008 - 7:45pm

Indonesian Army is one of the weakest armies in the world.
Nothing compared to other military countries.

Shame on you!!!!

Ekyah (not verified) — Thu, 09/18/2008 - 10:33am

This is wrong, the police should assist them to file a complaint at the military police. 'Serve and Protect' is a joke in Indonesia. Policemen are cowards. They are afraid themselves of the military.

Both Police and military are very irritating institutions in Indonesia because of their coward.

They even put stickers on their private cars stating that they are of the great Police force family or they are Mariner. Or they dug up some old police or military hat and put it on their dashboard. This is I hate the most. In this way they try to avoid being halted by Police raid, and they try to intimidate people upfront telling them,
Read my sticker...... don’t mess with me and take a hike.

Every one in Indonesia should put up a sticker on their car stating that they are Mariner, or from the great police force family. Simple to lose the effectiveness so the cowards can’t use this intimidating trick anymore. Class justice that’s what it is.

David (not verified) — Wed, 09/17/2008 - 9:54pm

This is probably not the entire story. But of course we will always assume that military personnels are low class barbarians. I would love to hear from the other side. Just because the woman we assume she is on the right, she was polite, and didn't probably provoke this problem.

Andi (not verified) — Wed, 09/17/2008 - 1:28pm

Uneducated and aggressive military personnel living among us? what is this, a zoo? Let me out of this dump, please.

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