The Fire At Glodok Plaza Is Not The First Time, It Has Happened 3 Times

Officers at the Glodok Plaza fire location/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - Muljadi (56) a man who works at Glodok Plaza as the Head of the Sound System of a karaoke place is still being sought by his family on Friday, January 17, 2025.

Muljadi became one of the people on the wanted list of missing people at the tactical post after a fire broke out at Glodok Plaza on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.

"My father worked at Glodok Plaza as the head of the sound system at the upper-floor karaoke. Around 20 years (worked there)," Stanly told VOI at the DVI post at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital.

Stanly said that the fire that hit Glodok Plaza was not the first time this had happened. To his knowledge from his father, Glodok Plaza had burned several times.

"Before my father worked there. There was indeed a karaoke business too. Before my father entered (worked) there, there had been two fires. And yesterday this was the third time (the fire at Glodok Plaza)," he said.

Stanly admitted that after learning of the fire on Wednesday, January 15, at night, he went straight to the location of the fire at Glodok Plaza on Thursday, January 16, morning.

He came with his younger brother and mother to find the whereabouts of Muljadi (56) his father. The reason is, that night, Muljadi was still working at the scene.

"At that time I knew, on Wednesday night I saw the news. The next morning I immediately left with my mother, my father's sister and sister to the scene. Yesterday I had time to go to the scene at Glodok Plaza, the first body bag came out filled with bones," he said.

Previously, it was reported that a number of victims of the Glodok Plaza fire were found burned to death in a karaoke room on the 8th floor, Glodok Plaza, Tamansari District, West Jakarta.

"At the karaoke place (the victim was found dead)," said Head of West Jakarta Gulkarmat Sub-dept., Syarifuddin, Friday, January 17.

According to Syarifuddin, the 8th floor of the Glodok Plaza building is a karaoke place. There are also many ruins on the 8th floor due to the fire.