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Premeditated murder behind slaying of grandparents and child in Bandung: Police

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Sat 07/30/2011


Police suspect that the slaying of three members of a family, whose remains were found on Friday in a house in Banjaran, West Java’s Bandung regency, was a case of premeditated murder.

West Java chief police detective, Sr. Comr. Fachrudin, said on Friday evening that it is likely there was more than one murderer.

“We’re still probing the motive: whether it was violence-ridden theft or revenge,” he said, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Fachrudin said the three victims - Apo, 66; Lilis, 64; and their grandchild Tresya, 4 - had been killed by cuts to their throats.

“We’ve found a machete, which is probably related to the victims’ deaths, but we still have to investigate further.”

The police estimate that the murders had taken place three days prior to Friday. Apo was found dead in the living room, while his wife Lilis and grandchild Tresya were found in a bedroom, and may have been killed while they were sleeping.

Bandung Police chief, Adj. Sr. Comr. Sony Sonjaya, said the murderers might have pretended to be guests to enter the house because there were no signs of forced entry on the doors or windows.

Four children killed by landslide in S. Sumatra

Sat, 07/30/2011 11:55 AM


At least four children, and probably more, died Friday in a village in Empat Lawang, South Sumatra, after a landslide buried them as they were playing.

Three of the four children were siblings: Dewi, 13; Yusri Anjani, 10; and Defriansyah, 8, who lived in a house 50 meters away from the incident scene.

People in Kemahang Lama village in Talangpadang district, where the incident took place, found out about the landslide after other youngsters, who had survived, told their parents about the tragedy.

As of Saturday, people were still trying to search for other children whom it is thought may be buried under the mass of earth, while local officials told village residents to inform them if any of their children hadn’t returned home.

Empat Lawang regent, Budi Antono Aljufri, expressed his regret over the incident, which was allegedly caused by the locals’ “imprudent” excavations in the area.

He ordered them to stop the activities, saying more landslides would likely occur given the approach of the rainy season, Antara reported.

Witch Doctor Arrested After Three Family Members Murdered

July 30, 2011



Police arrested an Indonesian witch doctor on Saturday after three members of a police officer’s family were found brutally murdered in their home in West Java.

The victims were identified as Apo, 66 and Eulis, 62, who were the parents-in-law of Adj. Comr. Wawan, a member of the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) stationed in Kalimantan.

The third victim was Wawan’s four-year-old daughter Keysia.

Bandung Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Sony Sonjaya told the Jakarta Globe that they believed the victims had been dead for at least five days.

All three were found in one room and had fatal slash wounds across their necks.

Agus, Wawan’s brother-in-law, was the first to discover the lifeless bodies when he visited the house in Bandung at 3.30 p.m. on Friday.

“At the time, the witness [Agus] tried to call his parents’ home but the call went unanswered,” Sony said.

Concerned, Agus visited the home but found it locked, he said.

“[Agus] forced his way inside because he smelled a powerful stench coming from inside the house,” Sony said. “Agus found the house to be in disarray. He also found blood stains all over the living room. He immediately called the police.”

Sony said that based on initial observations, police believed the killer was known to the family because there were no signs of forced entry.

Further, he said, they believed the murders had occurred at night because all the victims were wearing sleeping gowns and pyjamas.

He believed the murders were premeditated.

“The phone was disconnected; the gaps between the doors of the bedrooms were sealed with towels so the smell wouldn’t come out,” he said. “The perpetrators also locked the front door as well as the gates.”

Missing from the scene of the crime was the victims’ Suzuki Estillo.

Police, Sony said, had contacted Wawan and his wife.

Police have confirmed that a suspect was taken into custody in Jakarta at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Police are still piecing together the motives for the murders but the suspect, a ‘dukun’ or witch doctor, identified as Asep Dudung Budiman, 31, had met the victims at a cemetery in Garut, West Java, two months ago.

Money is likely to be a motive, a police source told the Globe. ( x the JG)