Burglary Of Journalists' Houses, Cash, Gold, Precious Metals, 4 Cellphones, 4 Hours, And Motorcycles Taken Away

Victim's house in East Jakarta/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - A specialist vacant house thief raided the house of an online media journalist in the Duren Sawit area, East Jakarta.

The perpetrators managed to steal cash, jewelry, electronic goods and a motorbike when the victim died and went to his house.

"I went to Bogor, when I came home, I found out that the gate was not closed, the lock was missing," said the victim, Ghulam Muhammad Nayazri to reporters, Tuesday, January 4.

As a result of this incident, the victim suffered losses of up to Rp. 80 million.

"The perpetrator stole cash worth Rp. 10 million, 100 US dollars, 25 grams of gold jewelry, 30 grams of precious metal, 4 cell phones and 4 watches from the room," he said.

According to Ghulam, when the incident occurred he was leaving the house. The incident only became known when he returned home and found that the fence padlock was missing and the main door was open.

"When I entered the house, the main door was opened, I checked the motorbike, there was not one that had a Vario," he said.

In this theft, it is strongly suspected that there was more than one perpetrator. The East Jakarta Metro Police Inafis team who conducted the case investigation found fingerprints in a drawer.

"It has been reported to the Duren Sawit Police. The downstairs door has been broken down. The chair has been moved and the room has been ransacked," he said.

Not only that, the perpetrators also took away an automatic motorbike parked in the living room. The perpetrator's action was carried out when the house was deserted and the owner left so that the theft was unknown to other residents.

"(The house) was left empty for less than 1x24 hours. The locks were brought by the perpetrators," he said.

The perpetrator only broke into one of the rooms in the victim's house which was on the ground floor.

"One room was broken into, if the fingerprints of more than one person (perpetrators). The perpetrators are specialists in empty houses," he said.