Retired Police Officer Dies Lying At MT Haryono Pancoran, Witness Says Debt Collector Approached

JAKARTA - Residents found a man suspected of being a retired Police officer with the initials MM (64) dead on Jalan MT Haryono, Pancoran, South Jakarta, Tuesday, January 4. The exact location when the victim was found in front of the South Jakarta Transportation Agency office.

"That's right, judging from the ID card, he is a retired National Police. We don't know his death. The police have identified him and then taken him to the Kramat Jati Police Hospital," said Head of the Pancoran Police Traffic Unit, Iptu Deni Setiawan when met at the location, Antara, Tuesday. , January 4th.

Deni added, the cause of death of the victim is still waiting for the results of the post-mortem from the hospital. "We don't know if he had a heart attack, we don't know what the hospital will know for sure from the post-mortem results," he said.

Deni initially received a report of the victim's whereabouts at around 13.30 western Indonesia time, from the Transportation Service. Receiving the report, he immediately checked the location and contacted the Pancoran Police and the South Jakarta Metro Criminal Investigation Unit.

Meanwhile, a security officer for the South Jakarta Transportation Sub-department, David, said that he initially recognized the victim's whereabouts when a passing motorist screamed because the victim had fainted.

"People who happened to pass by shouted that someone had fainted, he was already on his stomach. Now when he was on his stomach he was still breathing, but we didn't dare hold it either," he said.

He added that shortly before fainting, the victim was approached by three men suspected of being debt collectors.

"So, a total of six people approached him, they fled towards the (Tendean) road using motorbikes," he said.

A few dozen minutes later, the Criminal Investigation Unit team and the Inafis of Metro South Jakarta Police came to the location to identify the initial location of the case. Police officers also secured the victim's motorbike for investigation purposes.

Officers evacuated the victim's body using a hearse from the DKI Jakarta Parks and Cemetery Service to undergo an examination at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta.