Indonesia Highlights: Indonesian Presidential Security Detail Beefs Up Security at the Bogor Presidential Palace | Jakarta Police Bomb Squad Defuses Church Bomb Scare | Jakarta Police Arrest Gun Totin

Good Friday services in Jakarta and the rest of Indonesia might have proceeded peacefully, but they are not entirely free of scares.

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police deployed a Mobile Brigade Corps or Brimob’s Bomb Disposal Unit or Gegana to the Effatha Protestant Church of Indonesia [GPIB Effatha] in South Jakarta’s Melawai district, after they received a report of a suspicious item near the house of worship on Friday night.

“An initial check of the suspect bundle with electronic devices have failed to detect any flammable, metallic or other explosive materials,” said Jakarta Metropolitan Police’s Brimob commander Grand Police Commissioner Gatot Mangkurat of the item.

But he maintained that there is no room for complacency. “We still suspect that the [item] contains an explosive device, perhaps a letter bomb. That is why we will take it to Gegana headquarters for further examination.”

A GPIB Effatha security guard identified as Yonson reported finding the suspicious item, which turned out to be a magazine and a book of newspaper clippings, on a bus stop near the church at 6.30 pm. He added that he did not see any suspicious persons passing through the area.

Source:

https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2021/04/02/21462501/tim-jibom-gegana-pastikan-tak-rangkaian-bom-pada-benda-mencurigakan-di?page=all#page2. 

Jakarta Police Nab Gun-Toting Individual in Road Rage Incident

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police has arrested a car driver identified as MFA in connection with a road rage incident in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, after he used a pistol to menace a group of motorcyclists and bystanders who tried to hold him accountable for an accident early Friday morning.

“[The police] arrested the driver, whom we identified as MFA, at a mall in South Jakarta. We traced him to his house in Patal Senayan, South Jakarta, due to the license plate number and make of his car,” said Jakarta Metropolitan Police spokesman Grand Police Commissioner Yusri Yunus.

“His family then gave us his whereabouts.” Yusri noted that the police are still trying to determine how MFA got the gun, he had no doubt about the piece’s make or his intent

“The gun MFA used was an airsoft gun. He used it to bluff his way through a hostile crowd which tried to block him from leaving after he bumped into a female motorcyclist at a traffic light on Jalan [Street] Kolonel Sugiono, leaving her sprawled on the road.”

He added that MFA also used the gun out of rage at being stopped by the local people. MFA’s actions have gone viral on Instagram and other social media, after one of the bystanders recorded the incident and uploaded it on the internet.

Source:

https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2021/04/02/15574741/polisi-sebut-senjata-yang-ditodongkan-pengemudi-fortuner-di-duren-sawit?page=all#page2. 

https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2021/04/02/15003341/polisi-tangkap-pengemudi-fortuner-yang-tabrak-dan-todongkan-senjata-di?page=all#page2.