Police identify Raafi assailant

JAKARTA: Police say they have found the person they think stabbed to death Raafi Aga Winasya Benjamin, a Pangudi Luhur senior high school student, at Shy Rooftop in Kemang in early November.

“The stabber was F.,” South Jakarta police chief Sr. Comr. Imam Sugianto said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.

Imam said that F. stabbed Raafi after he was involved in a fight between F.’s and Raafi’s groups on the cafe’s dance floor.

“We are still learning his motives,” Imam said.

The police are also studying the possibility that someone ordered F. to kill Raafi.

However, the police have yet to find the knife Raafi was stabbed with.

“We haven’t found the weapon. We cannot reveal how the investigation led us to F. [as the perpetrator],” South Jakarta chief detective Sr. Comr. Budi Irawan said.

F., who was heavily guarded by the police during the case expose, denied the allegations, saying, “I did not stab him. Just ask the investigators. It wasn’t me.”