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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Situr Wijaya, a journalist from Palu in Central Sulawesi, was found dead in a hotel room in Jakarta on Friday, April 4, 2025. His legal representative suspects that his client suddenly died as a result of violence leading to murder.
"We have reported to the Jakarta Metropolitan Police for alleged criminal act of murder as regulated in Article 338 of the Indonesian Criminal Code," said Rogate Oktoberius Halawa, the legal representative of Situr Wijaya's family, when contacted by Antara on Saturday, April 5, 2025.
This was stated in the Police Report number LP/B/2261/IV/2025/SPKT/Polda Metro Jaya.
He explained that this action was taken after observing anomalies in the victim's death.
"After seeing the photos of the victim, the victim's family suspected that the victim died from being murdered. This suspicion arose from the victim's condition in the photos; blood coming from the nose and mouth, bruising on the face and the whole body, and a cut on the back of the neck," he said.
According to Rogate, they are currently awaiting the results of the autopsy conducted by the police.
"The autopsy has been conducted at the Indonesian National Police Hospital. The results were said to be released soon due to public attention," he said.
Situr Wijaya was an editor and the chief of Insulteng.id news portal. It is unknown why Situr traveled to Jakarta.
Situr Wijaya's body was sent on Saturday to his hometown in Palu City and is headed to the funeral home in the Sigi Regency.
Prior to this, the Central Sulawesi Governor, Anwar Hafid, stated that he would assist with the repatriation expense of Situr's body.
According to Selvianti, the late journalist's wife, the Governor of Central Sulawesi had provided financial aid amounting to Rp25 million.
The death of Situr occurred shortly after the murder of young journalist Juwita from South Kalimantan. The 22-year-old journalist from Newsway was found dead on March 22, 2025.
Her boyfriend, a member of the Indonesian Navy Al Kelasi Satu Jumran, is suspected as the perpetrator of the murder. Investigators from the Navy Police Detachment at the Banjarmasin Navy Base conducted a crime scene investigation of Juwita's murder and the disposal of her body on the edge of the Gunung Kupang-Kiram trans road, Cempaka District, Banjarbaru City, on Saturday afternoon, April 5, 2025.
Suspect Jumran was presented directly during the crime scene investigation. From the reconstruction video of the crime scene investigation received by Tempo, Jumran acted out 33 scenes involving riding the victim's automatic motorcycle with license plate DA 6913 LCS and the murder inside a rented car. "Scene three, movement six. The suspect got off on the right side of the motorcycle, then forcefully pushed the handlebar of the motorcycle," said the investigator in the video.
Diananta P. Sumedi contributed to the writing of this article.
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