Jakarta – A group of people broke into and damaged parts of the Monas Barat police post in Gambir, Central Jakarta, on Thursday night. The post is in the vicinity of City Hall and a handful of government buildings, including the State Palace.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono told reporters on Friday that one of the post's guards, Adj. First Insp. Aiptu Yusuf Indra, was approached by a visitor carrying a large knife at 8 p.m. on Thursday.
The man was angry and looking for some police officers who he said had stopped him on the street. "The man quarrelled with the officers at the post but they managed to calm the man down," Argo said as quoted by kompas.com.
The man left the post, but at 9:30 p.m. he returned with three other people who claimed to be the man's superintendents. At 11:30 p.m., 10 more men came to the post. They asked the same thing as the first man but were angrier and even pushed Yusuf around, Argo said.
"They entered the police post, broke into the cabinets then just left. Indra later sought help from another nearby police post but when he came back with help, the windows of his post had been broken and so had the computers inside," he said.
Argo said the police were still looking into the case to find out who was responsible for the assault. (dea)