36 Comments on “Darwin Awards 4 Indonesia”
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Jon Elliott says:
September 13th, 2010 at 4:29 pmI have an entry into this worthy competition. It is a picture. How can I send it to you for inclusion on this website.
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David says:
September 13th, 2010 at 4:42 pmJon, you can email it to webmaster[at]indonesiamatters.com
Replace [at] with @
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September 14th, 2010 at 2:52 pmHere are Jon’s pics, from the Kemang part of Jakarta:
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ET says:
September 14th, 2010 at 3:06 pmOne thing is missing in the pictures to make it complete. The guy who’s driving should be texting on his cellphone.
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Chris says:
January 20th, 2011 at 11:04 amIf this guy gets the death penalty for drug offences, he would surely be a Darwin Awards winner:
Busway shooter’s arrest leads to drug stash
Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 01/18/2011 10:32 AMFrustrated with worsening traffic congestion, a motorist in North Jakarta fired shots at a TransJakarta bus. No casualties were reported.
The man, identified only by the initials N.I., fired five shots at a TransJakarta bus that had blocked his passage while breaking at a bus stop in Pluit, North Jakarta.
The motorist was driving on the TransJakarta busway lane when the bus made a stop to drop passengers at the busway shelter.
“The suspect got out of his car and yelled at the bus driver,” City Transportation Agency chief Udar Pristono told reporters.
The terrified TransJakarta driver drove off after dropping the passengers, but the angry man proceeded to chase the bus.
“The bus driver stopped and told the man that he was wrong to be using the busway lane, but the man then fired shots into the air and at the gas tank of the bus,” Udar said, adding that the bus could have exploded.
Udar said that the suspect should be given the harshest punishment possible for endangering the public.
Police quickly pursued the suspect after the shooting was reported, and in an unsuspected twist found illegal drugs at the suspect’s private residence in North Jakarta.
Police said that it was not difficult to track the suspect down as several eye witnesses noted his license plate number.
The police arrested the suspect at his home on Jl. Kenari Golf Raya 15, Pantai Indah Kapuk, North Jakarta, on Sunday night and confiscated the weapon he used in the road rage incident.
“The weapon was a 38-caliber Colt, and it is an illegal weapon,” North Jakarta Police chief detective Adj. Comr. Irwan Anwar.
The gun, however, was not the only illegal possession police confiscated from the trigger-happy suspect. During the search at the suspect’s home, police found a significant amount of illegal drugs.
“We found 11,693 ecstasy pills, 2,738 Happy Five pills and 965.2 grams of shabu-shabu [metamphetamine] in one of the rooms in his house,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharuddin Djafar told reporters at the Jakarta Police Headquarters.
Baharuddin said the police are now intensively investigating the case as in the suspect’s home they also found tools and materials allegedly used for the production of ecstasy pills.
“Is the suspect a member of a drug syndicate? We are investigating the possibility,” Baharuddin said. Police are expected to charge the man for violating the 2009 Traffic Law, the 1951 Emergency Law on Illegal Gun Possession and Law No.35/2009 on Drugs.
Penjaringan Precinct chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Achmad Ibrahim said the suspect was reported to be a trouble maker in the area.
“Our record says that he’s a repeat offender in the area,” Achmad Ibrahim said, as quoted by detik.com.
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Chris says:
February 13th, 2011 at 3:57 pmI read the prosecutors will only seek a 16-year sentence for the guy in the story above.
Never mind, here are some other worthy nominees for 2011:
1. Flight mechanics learn the hard way the need to do a good job
Taken from: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/12/3137276.htm
Five killed in Indonesia plane crash
Posted Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:12pm AEDT
All five people onboard a test flight were killed in Indonesia when their small plane crashed after having one of its engines changed, a transportation ministry spokesman said.
The CASA aircraft of Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter left Batam island and crashed on Bintan Island, both in Riau Islands province.
“The pilot, co-pilot and three technicians died in the accident. They were on a flight test after they changed one of the engines for the aircraft,” transportation ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said.
Five police on a mission to help flood victims in eastern Indonesia were killed in October when their plane crashed into a tree during an emergency landing.
2. Schoolboy learns too late the benefits of pedestrian bridge
Taken from: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/10/residents-block-busway-after-accident.html
Funny how a mob tried to attack the driver, when it was clearly not her fault.
Residents block busway after accident
Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 02/10/2011 11:22 AM | City
A | A | A |Dozens of people in Mampang, South Jakarta, took to the street Wednesday and mantled a road block after a fourth-grader was killed in an accident involving a TransJakarta bus.
The City Police said that the fatal accident happened when the student, identified as M. Rizki Firmansyah, was trying to cross the street apparently unaware of an oncoming TransJakarta bus.
Eye witnesses in the location said that Rizki was thrown about 3 meters before his head hit asphalt.
Nearby residents tried to save Rizki by taking him to a nearby hospital but he died on the way to Asri Hospital in Duren Tiga, South Jakarta.
After learning of Rizki’s death, local residents formed a road block on the TransJakarta busway lane and tried to mob the bus driver.
Police from the Mampang Police quickly apprehended the bus driver to prevent him from being attacked by locals.
TransJakarta busway said it regretted the incident and that the company would provide financial compensation for Rizki’s family.
TransJakarta spokesman Bona Yoga Swara said that as a precautionary measure, drivers are now required to slow down at every intersection.
Meanwhile, transportation expert Darmaningtyas, who was at the scene when the accident happened, deplored the resident’s decision to block the busway lanes, which disrupted the TransJakarta service along the Dukuh Atas-Ragunan line.
He witnessed a 1-kilometer queue of TransJakarta buses form soon after locals erected the road blocks.
“The residents here put down pots and yellow flags to prevent buses from traveling,” he was quoted by kompas.com as saying.
Darmaningtyas said that the accident could have been prevented if Rizki had used the nearby crossing bridge.“People must use crossing bridges for safety reasons. And this blockade is a reckless act. But I also regret the fact that the officials and the police responded slowly to the incident,” he said.
TransJakarta busway lanes should at all times remain clear from private vehicles and pedestrians trespassers, as it was designed specifically to accommodate TransJakarta buses.
However, accidents reoccur from motorists, motorcyle riders and drivers of regular buses trying to use the busway lanes to avoid traffic snarls.
In 2010, 430 accidents happened involving TransJakarta buses. In 2009, the city police recorded 303.
TransJakarta corridor 3, connecting Kalideres in West Jakarta and Pasar Baru in Central Jakarta, recorded the most accidents in 2010 with 69 cases. Corridor 8, running from Harmoni in West Jakarta and Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta, came in second with 67 cases.
Corridor 5, connecting Ancol in North Jakarta and Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta, and corridor 7, linking Kampung Melayu and Kampung Rambutan, each recorded 64 accidents in 2010.
The safest line in 2010 was corridor 6, connecting Dukuh Atas in Central Jakarta and Ragunan in South Jakarta, with 36 accidents, but it was this line that saw another death on Wednesday.
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