Police Can Target New Suspects In The Ciater Deadly Bus Case

Trans Putera Fajar's tourism bus after experiencing an accident in Ciater, Subang, West Java, which brought the group of SMK Lingga Kencana Depok. (ANTARA).

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Police Strategic Studies Institute (Lemkapi) assessed that the police could target new suspects in the case of a tourism bus accident that killed 11 people in Ciater, West Java on Saturday, May 11.

"West Java Police can investigate the negligence of other parties, namely the owner of a tourism bus company to become a suspect, if there is sufficient preliminary evidence, they can immediately identify a new suspect," said Lemkapi Executive Director Edi Hasibuan in a written statement, in Jakarta, quoted on Wednesday. The graduate lecturer at Bhayangkara University Jakarta expressed his appreciation for the speed at the West Java Police Traffic Directorate who handled the accident case, which received a lot of public attention. "We see Ditlantas investigators working quickly to respond to this accident case," said Edi.

The police have named the tourism bus driver for the Lingga Kencana Depok Vocational School group as a suspect in an accident on the Ciater derivative road, Subang Regency, West Java, Saturday, May 11.

The Director of Traffic of the West Java Regional Police, Senior Commissioner of Police Wibowo, in his statement in Subang, Tuesday, May 14, said that the determination of the suspect's status to a bus driver named Sadira was carried out after a series of examinations and the collection of sufficient evidence. "(Due to the accident) we have taken steps after the accident to provide legal certainty," he said. Among the steps taken after the accident was to conduct a crime scene (TKP).

In addition, the police have also examined 13 witnesses, including bus drivers, conductors or assistants, bus passengers and witnesses at the crime scene and experts.

Another step taken was to physically check the buses supported by the West Java Provincial Transportation Service and the Subang Regency Transportation Service. "From the steps that have been taken, we got the result that at the TKP there were no former braking found, but all there were were only friction marks between the bus and the asphalt," said Wibowo.