Bekasi Residents Geger Phenomenon Tuyul, Many Residents Lose Money, Believe?

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JAKARTA - Residents of Pedurenan Village, Jatiluhur Village, Jatiasih, Bekasi City, West Java were shocked by the outbreak of the tuyul phenomenon. Judge (35) local residents said the phenomenon had started to be widely discussed by neighbors since three months ago, March to May 2024, because many residents claimed to have lost money.

The judge admitted that he was a victim. He said he had lost several times, in March with a loss of approximately Rp600 thousand.

Judge explained that his money was kept with his wife for Palestinian aid needs at his son's school.

"So before Eid, around 600 thousand were lost, the wife checked in the jar of money, when she took the money and checked that there was no money, only about 5 thousand pieces and 500 pieces of metal left," said Hakim, Wednesday, May 15.

It's just that at the beginning of the incident the judge did not suspect any alleged tuyul. Then the second incident found out that the money had been lost again in May 2024 when the judge and his wife tried to calculate the family contribution funds for the renovation of the mother-in-law's house.

The money that should have been collected was Rp. 20 million, but at that time it disappeared with a nominal value of Rp. 2.7 million.

"Then the second incident certainly did not know when it was lost. But when I wanted Eid, there was money for the renovation of my mother-in-law's house, it was a joint venture from my wife's younger siblings, the position of money was recorded at 20 million, when I checked 2.7 million lost," he admitted.

Not only that, the judge said that if the next incident occurred on Thursday, May 9. At that time, he and his wife again checked the money for the renovation of his mother-in-law's house. When the calculation was carried out, the money tied in rubber actually decreased by Rp950 thousand.

"Even though the position has been tied up even faster with four rubbers," he said.

After experiencing these three incidents, the judge then suspected that there was an alleged tuyul who stole his money.

Plus during the loss occurred, no CCTV footage recorded suspicious people stealing the money from each house.

"So far, no one has entered the house and if you enter the house, it will definitely be found out who and there is no CCTV either. No one has entered the house," he said.

At that time the judge was about to gather with local residents and tell the incident. Apparently a number of other residents also admitted that they had also lost cash at their respective homes.

"It turns out that I wasn't the only one who lost the money, there were also neighbors who went missing up to 1.5 million, 50 euros lost two sheets. If it's true that three people are totally victims, there are also neighbors who are different from RT, but I don't know what loss is," he said.

The judge also told the allegation of tuyul when a neighbor was riding a taxi and was told by the driver to be more careful about keeping cash at home.

"Before the incident, it was like this, there was also talk from neighbors, at that time the neighbor took a taxi and the taxi driver told my neighbor that 'Be careful in this neighborhood, I think someone covered the tuyul' too," he explained.

The judge revealed that after this incident he and the residents who lost the money did not report it to the police. It's just that they then created an ATM account to then put the money.

"It's also difficult for the police report because there is no evidence, if it's tuyul, at least the money that was previously held in cash is currently opening a new account to be placed at a bank ATM, in anticipation of losing it," he said.