Police Difficulty Revealing The Identity Of Mysterious Woman Celebrating In Tanjung Priok Container

The discovery of a woman's body in a container at Tanjung Priok Port/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - The Tanjung Priok Port Resort Police observed a photo of the location where the woman's body was found in a container at Tanjung Priok Port on Tuesday, January 16.

Head of the Tanjung Priok Port Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Iptu I Gusti Ngurah Putu Krisnha Narayana, said that the victim did not use footwear (sandal) and the nails looked cloudy and elongated.

The data found in the location photo, according to Ngurah, matches the information from the forensic doctor of the National Police Hospital that the body was found in an unmaintained condition.

"His nails were long, the nails of the corpse. So, it was said that it was like not being maintained like that, his nails were more cloudy than normal. When the body was found, no footwear, no sandals were found at the TKP," said Ngurah.

The objects found in the container with the body, among others, the bag next to it, one sarong in the bag, two clothes in the bag, one shirt outside the bag but not worn, one shorts worn, one empty plastic bottle, and plastic filled with sugar.

"The shirt is released here," said Ngurah.

The condition in the container that is tightly closed, according to him, will be more stuffy than the condition is open.

"Maybe it's hot, we don't know. This sugar is here near the feet, next to it there is a plastic bottle, maybe the mineral water has run out," said Ngurah as well.

Ngurah said that his party would investigate whether the contents of the plastic bottles were drinking water or others through laboratory tests.

So far, the police have used various disciplines, both pure and applied or scientific crime investigation (SCI) to uncover the mysterious death of a woman in a container, Tanjung Priok Port. This was done because in the investigation they faced a number of obstacles, including, fingerprints were difficult to detect because the condition of the corpse was rotting.

On the outside of the green container, where the body was found, there was SPNU number 279186 8 22G1.

Ngurah said that his party could track the container shipping route based on the number on the outside of the container.

Until now, the Tanjung Priok Port Police have examined a new witness with the initials M who is about 40 years old. Thus, the total number of witnesses who have been examined is six people.