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View all search resultsPolice retract statements after alleging ambulances had been used by rioters
Police have named three suspects believed to have been involved in a clash on Jl. Gatot Subroto in Central Jakarta following allegations of ambulances being used to carry rocks and gasoline for rioters, which have since been rescinded.
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Police fire tear gas at students rallying in front of the legislative complex in Central Jakarta on Tuesday. The protest took a chaotic turn in the late afternoon. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
Police have named three suspects believed to have been involved in a clash on Jl. Gatot Subroto in Central Jakarta following allegations of ambulances being used to carry rocks and gasoline for rioters, which have since been rescinded.
Jakarta Police general crimes unit director Sr. Cmr. Suyudi Ario Setio noted that the suspects, who hailed from Jakarta and were identified as AN, RL and YG, were not students.
“They carried rocks, Molotov cocktails, firecrackers and gasoline,” he told a press conference on Thursday.
Speaking on the same occasion, Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Cmr. Argo Yuwono said the three suspects had been seeking a place to hide when personnel of the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) were sweeping the location.
“The rioters brought rocks with them and got into some ambulances to seek protection. The Brimob personnel initially thought the vehicles had been used by the rioters, but that’s not what happened,” he said.
The statement was aimed to clarify initial police reports that they had confiscated five ambulances owned by the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) and a sixth owned by the Jakarta administration on Wednesday evening.
The police had uploaded two videos to their official Twitter and Instagram accounts showing officers checking the vehicles, with a caption reading: “The National Police confiscated five ambulances belonging to the Jakarta administration that were used to carry rocks and gasoline for Molotov [cocktails] near the Pejompongan tollgate on Jl. Gatot Subroto.”
