Reason Man Pointed Airsoft Gun At Coolie At Pondok Indah: Zoom Meeting Interrupted With Noisy Sounds

The man with the initials RPB (54) who is now a suspect (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - The man with the initials RPB (54) who had brandished an airsoft gun at a construction worker with the initials SES in a housing estate in the Pondok Indah area, South Jakarta, has become a suspect by the South Jakarta Metro Police. The reasons for the perpetrators seem trivial, noisy.

"Today, we have determined the person concerned as a suspect," said the Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jayam Kombes Pol Endra Zulpan, Tuesday, February 15, as reported by Antara.

The motive for the perpetrator was to get angry like that because when the victim was at work, he was doing a zoom meeting. Apparently the perpetrator was disturbed by the noise from the house renovation work carried out by SES

"The motive behind this case is that the suspect was annoyed and disturbed and uncomfortable with the noise made by the victim at work," he said.

According to the suspect's statement, he had twice reprimanded the victim but was ignored, so RPB finally took his "airsoft gun" to threaten the victim.

SES then reported the incident to the South Jakarta Metro Police which led to the arrest of RPB. However, Zulpan did not explain in detail when he was arrested.

For that incident, RPB was named a suspect under the suspicion of Article 335 of the Criminal Code with a threat of 1 year in prison.

The incident of a man pointing a suspected firearm at a construction worker has gone viral on social media. One of the Instagram accounts that uploaded the video is the @brandemamjakarta account. In the upload, the account includes the following narration: MIDDLE OLD MEN POINTS AN OBJECT LIKE A PISTOL AT THE CONSTRUCTION COLLER IN PONDOK INDAH. A middle-aged man points a gun-like object at a construction worker in a building. house in the luxury residential area of Pondok Indah, Pondok Pinang, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta last Saturday at around 10.30 WIB.