Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Military police discovered almost 30,000 bullets, grenades and 145 rifles and pistols at the home of a high-ranking Army officer who died last week.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Djoko Santoso told a hastily arranged press conference broadcast live late Thursday from Army Headquarters that the cache was found at the home of the late Brig. Gen. Koesmayadi, the army's deputy to the assistant in charge of logistics. The discovery, Djoko said, "was highly irregular and beyond acceptable practice".

Koesmayadi died last Sunday at another residence in Cibubur, east of Jakarta, after he was treated at Gatot Subroto army hospital for heart problems.

Djoko said the search of his home in Ancol, North Jakarta, followed standard procedures of the Indonesian Military (TNI) for the return of "inventory" from retiring and deceased personnel.

He defined inventory as including weapons, vehicles and official residences. He listed the findings as 145 rifles, 42 pistols, 28,985 bullets, nine grenades and 28 pairs of binoculars.

Detik.com news portal quoted Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Adang Firman as saying he had not received a report about the matter.