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Police name three suspects in elevator accident
Employees gather outside the Nestle building at the Arkadia Green office complex in Jl
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Employees gather outside the Nestle building at the Arkadia Green office complex in Jl. TB Simatupang in South Jakarta after an elevator crashed recently. PT Nestle Indonesia management confirmed that two employees died in the crash. (Warta Kota/Bintang Pradewo) (Warta Kota/Bintang Pradewo)
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span class="caption">Employees gather outside the Nestle building at the Arkadia Green office complex in Jl. TB Simatupang in South Jakarta after an elevator crashed recently. PT Nestle Indonesia management confirmed that two employees died in the crash. (Warta Kota/Bintang Pradewo)
Jakarta Police have named three suspects in connection with an elevator crashing to the ground at the Arkadia office complex on Jl. TB Simatupang, South Jakarta, that claimed the lives of two people and wounded another person early this month.
The suspects have been identified as PT Eltek Indonutama president director and two technicians of the company.
'We have named three suspects. PT Eltek has a memorandum of understanding with PT Nestle Indonesia for elevator maintenance,' said South Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Wahyu Hadiningrat as reported by tribunnews.com on Friday.
According to Wahyu, the president director was responsible for instructing the two technicians to carry out maintenance work on the elevators, while the two technicians had been named suspects because they lacked operational permits as stipulated in Article 27 of Manpower and Transmigration Ministerial Regulation No. PER.03/Men/1999 on safety requirements for elevators. He said PT Eltek's permit had expired in 2010.
The PT Eltek president director should have known the technicians lacked permits from the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry. 'The technicians did their job without permits and qualification. The technicians did their job based on the instructions of the president director,' Wahyu said.
The three suspects have been detained at the South Jakarta Police office. They are accused of violating articles 359 and 360 of the Criminal Code on negligence causing death, which carry a maximal sentence of five years in prison.
Similar elevator accidents have occurred in other buildings in the city in the past. On Oct. 1, an elevator at Taman Kemayoran Apartment, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, fell, injuring nine. On Feb. 17, an elevator pendulum at Blok M Plaza in South Jakarta fell from the upper ground floor, killing 35-year-old maintenance worker Muhammad Anwar, who was cleaning an elevator pipe under it on the ground floor. On Dec. 24, 2013, Mukhtar Natzir, 24, a warehouse worker at an electronics company located in a Galaxy shop-house in Bekasi, West Java, was crushed by an elevator at the shop. (bbn)
