Snatcher In Kebagusan, A Girl's Gold Necklace Stolen

Screenshot of CCTV footage of of a girl's gold necklaces snatching action in Kebagusan, South Jakarta (via ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Pasar Minggu Police are investigating the snatching case of a six-year-old girl in the Kebagusan Besar area, South Jakarta City.

"While we are checking, we have deployed the picket officers to trace the incident after we received information from the social media," said the Pasar Minggu Police Chief, Police Commissioner Effi M. Zulkifli, quoted by Antara, Sunday, February 14.

The snatching action was recorded by a surveillance camera (CCTV) which was widely shared on Instagram social media and the WhatsApp group.

The incident occurred in the Kebagusan area near the Al Masykuriah Mosque, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta City, around 11.00 Western Indonesia Time.

The 58-second video shows two adult men riding a Honda Vario motorcycle. One person wears a helmet and the one in the rug does not wear a helmet. Both are wearing masks.

The two seemed to have observed the surrounding location and targeted a girl who was playing with her friend.

The two perpetrators approached the children by pretending to ask for an address, then pulled a gold necklace with a pendant of R letter which is the child's initials.

When the necklace is cut off, the girl then runs away, leaving her necklace falling on the asphalt. The perpetrator who sat in the back then took the necklace and fled with his friend who was carrying a motorbike.

"There have been reports, now the Criminal Investigator picket officer (criminal investigator) has gone to the crime scene to check," said Iffi.

The victim's father, Firdaus Hardiansyah, made a report on the incident by saying that the gold necklace that was snatched was worth IDR 1.1 million. As a result of snatching, the child is psychologically disturbed.