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Jail Break No More: All 12 Prisoners Captured
Zaky Pawas & Carla Isati Octama | February 10, 2012

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bule4you
4:35am Feb 11, 2012

Indonesian police, reporters and newspapers are, from my personal experience, well known for inventing, exaggerating and sensationalising any story. In this case, I'd be pretty sure chainsaw translates to hacksaw if the real truth is known

Jeanne Hachette
4:56pm Feb 10, 2012

This article tells a lot about Indonesian prisons. I have never heard about somebody succeeding in hiding a chainsaw in his pocket. Amazing Indonesia!!

marko1
4:56pm Feb 10, 2012

All 12 in 2 days caught but nunun was on the run 2 years....

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Police have recaptured the last three fugitives from a group of 12 detainees who broke out of a police holding cell in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, and are now taking steps to prevent another embarrassing breakout.

The escapees were arrested on Thursday night in three different locations: Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara; Padang, West Sumatra; and Solo, Central Java.

Sr. Comr. Rikwanto, a Jakarta Police spokesman, said on Friday that an investigation was under way into how the detainees had managed to escape undetected from the Cempaka Putih subprecinct police station by sawing their way through the bars.

“We’re still investigating the officers in charge, but right now there’s no evidence to suggest they were involved in the incident,” Rikwanto said on Friday.

Among those recaptured on Thursday was Ocky Inka Haryadi, whom police have identified as the mastermind behind the breakout. Speaking to reporters after his arrest in Solo, Ocky admitted that his wife had smuggled in the saws, wrenches and bolt cutters that the detainees used to cut through the bars, but denied having planned the escape.

He said the whole scheme was the idea of Andre Julius, another of the last three fugitives, who was caught in Kupang. Ocky said Andre had promised to pay him if he could persuade his wife to bring in the tools.

“He said the police wouldn’t be suspicious of her because she was pregnant,” he said. He agreed, and asked his wife to bring in the items, concealed beneath her dress, during a series of visits to the jail in early January.

His wife, Resti, was arrested along with Ocky in Solo. Police also arrested another man, Suprijaya, in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, for providing a blowtorch that the detainees used to weaken the bars before cutting them.

Ocky revealed that the brazen breakout in the early hours of Tuesday was the second time in the space of as many months that he had escaped from the Cempaka Putih facility.

The first time he escaped was on Dec. 17 last year, when he was being transported to another police station to give a statement.

“I noticed that one of the rivets on the handcuffs was loose, so I took it apart and ran off,” he said.

He was recaptured on Dec. 25 in Bandung, only to break out again early this month.

Insp. Gen. Untung S. Rajab, the Jakarta Police chief, said an internal affairs team was investigating conditions at the Cempaka Putih station and would hand down punishments to the officers on duty at the time of the breakout as well as to the subprecinct police chief, Comr. Adhie Santika.

“However, the sanctions will be lightened in view of the fact that they took only three days to recapture the escapees,” he said, declining to elaborate on the form of the punishment. He also said his office was considering a proposal to set up a CCTV system.