Before Being Found Dead In Bekasi River, The Victims Celebrate Their Friends' Birthday

TIM SAR evacuates 7 male bodies in Kali Bekasi/ Photo; IST

JAKARTA - Seven male bodies found in Kali Bekasi, behind the Al Ikhlas Mosque, Pondok Gede Permai housing, RT 04/08, Jatirasa Village, Jatiasih District, Bekasi City, West Java, were finally revealed.

Witnesses claimed that in the early hours of Saturday, September 21, he and a number of his friends, including 7 victims, were in a gathering place beside the Semen factory along the Bekasi River, Jatiasih District, Bekasi City.

The witness told Dwi Septiani who was one of the families of the 7 victims who died in Kali Bekasi.

According to Dwi Septiani, he had learned that his cousin, whose initials MR had been declared missing (not returning home) on Saturday, September 21, afternoon.

Dwi and the victim's family MR have tried to find MR's whereabouts to the local police station but there is no answer.

Then he received information from eyewitnesses who were also friends of 7 people who died.

Still according to witnesses, the beginning of the incident began when 7 victims and a number of their friends celebrated the birthday of a youth group in Cikunir, Bekasi.

"So his friend had a birthday, then he got together to Cikunir. Then from there he moved to the front of the house. Then he moved again to the side of the river (the location of the incident), then he was immediately arrested by the police," Dwi told reporters, shedding tears at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital, East Jakarta, Sunday, September 22.

Dwi received this valid information from a friend of the victim MR. MR is Dwi's cousin who was found dead in the Bekasi River stream.

"I know from his friend who escaped, who at the time of the incident managed to escape and return home. I just said that he fell into the river (Bekasi River flow). After that, I don't know anymore," he said.

From the testimony of witnesses, 7 victims who were determined to throw themselves into the Bekasi River flow occurred last Saturday around 4 to 5 in the morning.

"The incident (in the press or raided by the police) was around Saturday morning, around four o'clock or five in the morning. When they were arrested by the police they threw themselves into the river. They were friends who gathered one hangout," he said.

Currently, the family has identified one of the 7 bodies found without an identity in the Bekasi River stream. The body is known to have the initials MR. From the disclosure of the identity of one victim with the initials MR, the resulting cause of death of the 7 unidentified bodies was successfully revealed.