South Jakarta DLH Cleaning Officer Unaware Of Sack Lifted With Beko Filled With Bodies, Suspected Of Murder Victim

Rano, a janitor at Kali Pesanggrahan who found a sack containing the body of a murder victim/ Photo: Jehan/ VOI

JAKARTA - Rano Barasa (27), one of the witnesses to the discovery of the man's body in a sack at the Pesanggrahan River, South Jakarta, said that the victim was suspected of being a murder victim. Because, when the body was removed there was a stone measuring 50 centimeters tied in a sack.

Rano, who works as an officer for the South Jakarta Environment Service, also said that the body was found on Tuesday, June 28, at around 08.30 WIB.

That morning he was dredging trash at the crime scene (TKP) using heavy equipment, beko.

"I'm operating this heavy equipment (beko). Yes, we don't know what garbage is or what is a corpse. It's also called working in the garbage, we will dredge the garbage," said Rano.

"His position (the corpse) was covered with sacks. Two sacks, top and bottom. They were tied up and seemed to be given a weight like stone," Rano said when met on Jalan Deplu Raya, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, Tuesday, June 28.

"When we put it in front of us, my friend said he wanted to put it in the excavator's bucket. When we checked, "it looks like a corpse". I was spontaneously shocked, scared. I let go again into the water," he said.

Realizing that something was wrong, Rano and his friends reported it to the police.

"After reporting to the supervisor, the police continued to come here. (Only) we brought our friends here. After that, we waited for the Inafis team from forensics," he said.

Rano admitted that he did not know further about the condition of the victim, whether there were stab wounds or not. Because he felt that at that time it was the police who had the authority to open the sack.

"I don't know exactly what the wound was, because it was covered with a sack. When it was opened, it was blocked, and the Inafis team used a ticket. So I couldn't see clearly," said Rano.