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Yogyakarta Police investigating suspicious death of Timor Leste citizen
A Timor Leste citizen identified as Joao Bosco Baptista Colo Batan was recently found dead on a cliff near the Cemoro Sewu hiking trail in Magetan regency in East Java.
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Handcuffs and fingerprints. (Shutterstock/-)
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he Yogyakarta Police are investigating the death of Joao Bosco Baptista Colo Batan, a Timor Leste citizen whose body was recently found on a cliff near the Cemoro Sewu hiking trail in Magetan regency, East Java.
Batan, a university student who lived in Yogyakarta, was reported missing by the Yogyakarta Police on July 3 before his dead body was found wrapped in a blanket by local residents of Cemoro Sewu village on July 12.
“We have found information that leads to the perpetrators [possibly involved in Batan’s death] and thank God we have obtained their data,” Yogyakarta Police Criminal Division director Sr. Comr. Hadi Utomo said on Thursday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The 21-year-old man was first reported missing by the Yogyakarta Police through a now-deleted post on their Instagram account @poldajogja detailing his physical appearance.
According to the information written in the post, Batan was last seen on July 2. He was reportedly with a friend in his room at 11 a.m. when suddenly three men arrived and asked him to come out. Police said Batan went with them and he was apparently not seen alive since then.
Following reports of the discovery of an unidentified corpse, the Magetan Police retrieved the dead body and sent it for fingerprint analysis and disaster victim identification to the Bhayangkara Police Hospital in Nganjuk, East Java, which concluded that the dead man was indeed Batan.
Timor Leste Ambassador to Indonesia Alberto XP Carlos said he had visited the Yogyakarta Police to obtain further details regarding the case.
“The police already have a list of names [of people possibly involved in the death] but the case is still under investigation,” Carlos said, adding that he would be waiting for the results of the police probe.
Batan was originally from Oecussi-Ambeno, a special administrative region in Timor Leste. He was a student of flight engineering at the Yogyakarta Adisutjipto Technology Institute.
His dead body had been sent via Adisutjipto International Airport in Yogyakarta at 6 p.m. western Indonesia time on Thursday to Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, and had been retrieved by the Timor Leste Consulate. Batan would be laid to rest in Oecussi-Ambeno, Carlos said. (dmy/afr)
