Reveals The Puzzle Of A Women's Body Celebrating In The Tanjung Priok Port Container, Police Use SCI Method

Police officers conducted an examination at the crime scene where a corpse was found in a container/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA To reveal the death of a mysterious woman who was found rotting in a container at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta, the Tanjung Priok Port Police will apply the scientific crime investigation' (SCI) method.

"This was done because the investigation process faced a number of obstacles, including fingerprints that were difficult to detect because the condition of the corpse was rotting," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Tanjung Priok Port Police, Iptu I Gusti Ngurah Putu Krishna Narayana, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, January 17.

SCI itself is a process of disclosing criminal acts that uses various disciplines of science, whether pure science or applied, which is developed scientifically and further away. Therefore, in the process, the police also inter-collaborated the process.

He explained, when the fingerprint detection constraints are difficult on the condition of the rotting corpse, then it can then be done with a special treatment in terms of forensics.

For example, by freezing your finger using a special chemical solution, then turning it off for some time until fingerprints are detected.

Therefore, he continued, his party is coordinating with the forensic team to schedule these efforts in the next one to two days.

The Tanjung Priok Port Police Criminal Investigation Unit has also examined five witnesses regarding the case of the discovery of a mysterious body in a container on Tuesday, January 16. The additional witnesses examined were two people from the container shipping company (shipping).

"Previously, the person who opened the container had the initials MZ, as well as two security officers in the unloading terminal area with the initials T and K had also been examined as witnesses," said Ngurah.

Documents from the forensic doctor of the National Police Hospital stated that the female body was 50-65 years old, 153 cm tall, with gray hair, found without any signs of violence against the skin or organ damage to fractures.

The body wore 28 black shorts and dark brown underwear. Despite the discovery of signs of lack of oxygen, the cause of death could not be determined.

Deaths are expected to occur between two and ten weeks before examination, becoming the focus of further investigation into the case.

In fact, investigators from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tanjung Priok Port Police found empty container shipments from Surabaya since early January and piled up at Tanjung Priok Port until January 16, before being reused for loading and unloading goods.