The Jakarta Transportation Agency is considering shutting down the Ciledug-Kebayoran Lama public minivan route after an 18-year-old student was raped immediately after debarking from one of the vans.
“If we find out that a minivan driver was involved in the rape, we will revoke their license to operate in the city,” agency head Udar Pristono told reporters on Sunday, as reported by kompas.com.
He said that the agency would cooperate with Banten’s transportation agency if it chose to cancel the entire minivan route.
Udar said that the agency would continue to crackdown on minivans drivers without uniforms or driver’s licenses. So far, 15 public minivan drivers have had their licenses revoked, he said.
Midwifery student J.M. was on her way home from college at around 9 p.m. on Friday night when she was assaulted by five men.
She had just gotten off a C01 public minivan in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, and was searching for a D01 minivan plying the Kebayoran Lama-Ciputat route.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said that the five men followed her 500 meters onto train tracks. “One of them hit J.M. on the back of the head, knocking her unconscious,” he told reporters on Monday.
J.M. came to beside the railroad on Saturday morning and realized that she had been raped. She reported the rape to the South Jakarta Police.
Rikwanto said that the police were still investigating the case.
The Jakarta Police recorded 68 rapes in 2011, a 13.33 percent increase from 60 cases in 2010. Some of the rapes were committed onboard public minivans.
Bina Nusantara University student Livia Pavita Soelistio was found dead in Cisauk, Tangerang, after she was robbed, gang-raped and then killed by four men onboard an M24 public minivan plying the Srengseng-Kebon Jeruk route on Aug. 16 last year. On Dec. 14 last year, a Depok resident identified as 35-year-old R.S. was raped onboard a M26 public minivan on Dec. 14 while she was on her way to traditional market near her home at 3 a.m.
The rapists dumped her on Jl. Alternatif Cibubur, 2 kilometers from the Cikeas police post. (mim)
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