A Basic Food Stall In Tambora, West Jakarta, Burglarized By Thieves, Losses Reach Hundreds Of Millions

Illustration of CCTV/SPC

JAKARTA - A CCTV video managed to record the burglary of a basic food stall (Nine staples) that occurred on Jembatan Lima street, Tambora District, West Jakarta. The perpetrators launched their actions on Monday, April 18, yesterday.

According to VS (29), the owner of the shop who was the victim, the incident was captured on CCTV cameras and occurred at around 04.30 western Indonesia time when the weather was pouring rain.

When he came to open the shop at around 08.00 western Indonesia time, he saw that the door of the shop had been damaged.

"The door for selling cigarettes, the cigarette cabinet is open. There are no cigarettes and the cash drawer is also empty," said the victim, Tuesday, April 19.

CCTV footage shows a black car parked in front of the shop. From the video, a man wearing a hat and jacket gets out of the car and pry open the gate of the shop using a crowbar.

The perpetrator then entered the shop with his other colleagues. Not long after, the man in the hat brought a large sack from inside the shop to the car he was traveling in.

The perpetrators freely looted the victim's merchandise until several times the theft. In addition to cigarettes, cash stored in a drawer was also taken away.

"The money that was brought was IDR 80 million, while the various kinds of cigarettes were worth around IDR 100 million," admitted the victim.

When confirmed by VOI, the Head of Tambora Police, Commissioner of Police Rosana Labobar, has not yet given an official statement regarding the incident of the burglary of the basic food stall.