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Police arrest three suspected '€˜angkot'€™ robbers

The East Jakarta Police have arrested three suspects for an alleged series of robberies targeting women on public transportation in the municipality

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Wed, December 16, 2015

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Police arrest three suspected '€˜angkot'€™ robbers

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he East Jakarta Police have arrested three suspects for an alleged series of robberies targeting women on public transportation in the municipality .

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Mohammad Iqbal said on Tuesday that the three men were identified as Benny Tambunan, 24, Pernando Naibaho, 24, and Christian AJ Tambunan, 18, and that they belonged to the same group, adding that the force was hunting for two further members.

'€œWe have identified three victims so far,'€ Iqbal told reporters at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

The suspects robbed their female victims, he said, by posing as passengers on angkot (public minivans), threatening the victims with knives and ordering them to hand over all their possessions.

No casualties had so far been reported as a result of the robberies, he added.

Tempo.co quoted East Jakarta Police spokeswoman Comr. Husaimah as saying that the perpetrators normally robbed their victims inside the M01 angkot, which plies the route between Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta and Senen in Central Jakarta.

According to Husaimah, the men committed three separate robberies before their arrests in three locations.

On Dec. 12, the group had robbed a woman, Yuliha Priatiningsih, in an angkot on Jl. Kayu Manis in Matraman, Husaimah said. She explained that the perpetrators had boarded the minivan, immediately closing the doors behind them, and threatened Yuliha with a knife, instructing her to lie face down on the floor of the vehicle so she would not see their faces.

'€œThe perpetrators took a cell-phone, an ATM card and Rp 23 million [US$1,639] in cash from the victim,'€ she said.

On Nov. 29, she went on, the group had robbed a woman identified as Tian Yulianti in an angkot as it drove along Jl. Cakung Cilincing in North Jakarta. '€œOne of the perpetrators threatened the woman with a knife and told her to keep silent. With the victim helpless, the perpetrators took all the victim'€™s belongings,'€ Husaimah said.

The group'€™s first identified crime, meanwhile, took place on Nov. 5 when members robbed a woman identified as Nurul Madinah in an angkot traveling through Kampung Rambutan in East Jakarta, according to the police spokeswoman.

It remains unclear whether the drivers of the angkot on which the crimes occurred are suspected of collusion with the detainees.

The police have confiscated three cars and three minivans and Rp 2.2 million in cash from the suspects.

In June, a female employee at a private company, identified as NA, 35, was raped inside a D01 angkot, which travels between Ciputat and Kebayoran in South Jakarta. The victim was raped by the driver, identified as DAS, 21.

The incident happened as the victim was returning home from her office in Kebayoran Lama. She boarded the otherwise empty vehicle, sitting in the front seat next to the driver.

When the minivan passed a junction in Lebak Bulus, the victim told the driver that she wished to alight, but the driver said he would instead drop her off at the next junction. However, he continued past the Fatmawati area, stopping only upon reaching a quiet overpass, where he proceeded to rape NA.

In 2013, a woman identified as R, 35, was raped by a driver of angkot M26, which runs from Kampung Melayu to Bekasi in West Java. Having been raped, she was robbed by a group of people thought to be associates of her attacker.

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