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No Justice For Kidnap Victim or Her Family
Nurfika Osman | January 26, 2010

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peterR
8:52am Jan 27, 2010

It shows yet again that the police are only interested in crimes that allows them to self promote. It also shows yet again that the police are truly a bunch of self serving morons.

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For the past two months, Ade Suryana, a factory worker, has spent most of his time driving around Jakarta on a motorbike looking for his missing daughter as police continue to do little to help the grieving family.

Eka Dewi Lestari, 3, disappeared while playing outside her house on Nov. 24, 2009, he said.

“We reported the case to the police the day Eka disappeared but they said we had to wait 24 hours before she could be declared missing. So after 24 hours I reported again,” Ade said.

But, he said, police only came to their house a week ago, after the case was reported by the media.

Arist Merdeka Sirait, the secretary general of the National Commission of Child Protection (Komnas Anak), on Monday expressed his disappointment that police had so far only classified the child as missing.

“They should have viewed this as a kidnapping case,” he said.

A week after Eka disappeared, her parents received a text message from her captor asking for a Rp 10 million ($1,069) ransom. They have not heard from him since, Ade said.

Arist added that the case highlighted the kidnapping problem in the country. Komnas Anak recorded 102 child abductions from January to June in 2009, compared to 87 in the same period in 2008. “This means that our community is not safe,” he said.

Wahyu Hartomo, from the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry, said it would waste no time in working with the National Police, Komnas Anak and the Ministry of Social Affairs to deal with the issue.

“We are concerned about this issue and we keep coordinating with these institutions to deal with it,” Wahyu said.