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Islands in focus: Passenger jokes about carrying bomb
MAKASSAR: An Indonesian Army officer was handed over to the Air Forceâs military police on Thursday Friday for examination after jokingly saying that he was carrying a bomb when he was about to depart for Jakarta from Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi
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AKASSAR: An Indonesian Army officer was handed over to the Air Force's military police on Thursday Friday for examination after jokingly saying that he was carrying a bomb when he was about to depart for Jakarta from Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
Lt. Col. Rudy Setiawan made the joke when he was passing through the airport's X-ray detector.
Hary Budi Waluyo, a spokesperson for airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I, said that when the airport's officers checked on Rudy's body and asked him what he was carrying inside his jacket, Rudy said it was a bomb. 'He even said it twice,' Harry said.
The airport aviation security officers promptly searched the military officer, but they did not find a bomb on him. Nonetheless, he was handed over to the Air Force's military police for examination. He failed to depart for Jakarta.
The bomb-scare incident is the third so far to have occurred at the airport. The first incident involved a police officer on Sunday. The second was committed by a civil servant the following day.
