The Murder Of Makassar Transportation Agency Employees Because Of Being Jealousy, Planned Since 2020

Makassar Police Chief Kombesl Budhi Haryanto (second from left) accompanied by the Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Police Kombes Komang Suartana/ Antara

MAKASSAR - Makassar Police Chief, Commissioner Budhi Haryanto, said the planning to kill Makassar Transportation Service employee, Najamuddin Sewang, began in 2020.

"Based on the suspect's confession, this planning has been going on since 2020 and has only been implemented now," he said explaining the motive for the shooting when the case was released at the Makassar Police Headquarters, South Sulawesi, as reported by Antara, Monday, April 18.

He said that he had attempted murder in 2020, but failed and was only able to realize his intention in 2022 or to be precise on Sunday, April 3 morning, on Danau Tanjung Bunga Street around the Cheng Ho Mosque, at 10:00 WITA.

Commissioner Budhi Haryanto stated, that planning to kill in 2020 was to ask someone to throw something at the victim's house. But at the time it failed.

The failure of the killings that year, he said, and the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, was then delayed until they were finally successfully carried out at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan 1443 Hijrah.

"He said he threw something at the victim's house, but it failed and only now succeeded after careful planning," he also said.

Budhi Haryanto explained that the motive for the murder of Najamuddin Sewang was a fire of jealousy. The victim is known to have also approached his lover who is also an echelon IV official at the Makassar Transportation Agency with the initials R.

According to him, both the victim, the perpetrator, and the woman being contested was in the same office as the victim at the Makassar Transportation Agency. Suspect Iqbal Asnan (MIA) served as Acting Head of the Makassar Transportation Agency in 2018 and was later transferred and inaugurated as Head of Makassar Civil Service Police Unit in 2021.

"This is a love triangle, an illicit relationship. The planning of murder in 2020 and only now has been realized. It's all because of the fire of jealousy," he also said.

In this case, the police have named five suspects, each with the initials MIA (Head of Makasar Civil Service Police Unit), SU, CA, AS, and SL.

MIA or Iqbal Asnan acted as the mastermind of the murder, assisted by four other people as planners and executioners.

For the actions of the perpetrators, the police charged them with Article 55 (1) and (2) in conjunction with Article 56 in conjunction with 340 of the Criminal Code regarding premeditated murder. The perpetrators face a minimum prison sentence of 20 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.