Tabing Tragedy (Bloody Monday)
By : Suprihatin, S.E.
Based on true story
It was on Monday 19 October
2015 when the tragedy happened.
It was after work at Kemayoran
area, in the main street approx. 500 meters in front of Jalan Tabing, Kemayoran
– Central Jakarta where all the disaster began.
My friend and I were
going home from work, it was 3 o’clock
in the afternoon.
It was on Monday afternoon, the weather so hot and not
too friendly.
I walked along the street, and
I saw Mikrolet 53 was waiting, it was blue,
and stayed and waited for us across the street for a long time. It seemed no
passenger sat at the back, but I saw 2 passengers had already been sitting beside the driver when I came. All seemed to be normal like any other day,
until the car moved on.
My friend and I were sitting at the back, we were sitting face to face, no body was sitting
with us at that moment, we were feeling free to sit everywhere we liked at that time.
A few minutes later, came a
man, he was about 30 years old, he was Chinesse descendant, wearing white T-shirt
and he sat right next to the door, he looked at us as nothing I felt to be
suspicious about him.
I opened my bag, my blue big
bag, as I wore this bag for almost all times. Though my destination was still
too way too far. I took the money as if I were ready to pay for the fare of this Mikrolet 53.
Suddenly, the car was stopped
by the other man with the black bag, he came inside, he sat in the corner at the back,
and the man who sat next to the door was moved slowly and sat in front of
me.
Few minutes later, come a man,
a fat man who sat next to my left, so I was flanked by two men.
After a minute, then come one
man again, he sat next to the door, I didn’t recognize that this formation perhaps
already been set up by this guys long time back before they began to
implement this plan into action.
Suddenly this Chinesse descendant man
took my hand, hold on to my hand, he suddenly fell down from the chair, he quickly fell to the floor and I asked him what happened, he shouts out: "Kesemutan”,
or in English called Pins and needles, I thought in a glance, it was ridiculous if
this man not enough strong to stand on his way, he shouldn’t take my hand to
give support for strong. I was suspicious, why the other men did not help him, and
why only him was asking for help from me.
Then the chaos happended inside
the car, all attention now to the man, whom was of Chinese descent. A few minutes later, after he
walked out the car, I opened my bag and felt like cutthroat I found that my BlackBerry
and Samsung Grand Duos handphone had
gone.
I felt shocked and didn’t know what to do, I yelled to stop the car,
the car stopped. I dropped out and tried to catch him, but I didn’t see any
men waking or running in the street. It was large space street and I knew for a
moment that I lost it, I lost my 2 Handphones. I walked toward the main street,
and I found ojek next to the main street, I just asked the ojek to go to the
Police station, then I went to the nearest Police station and I still lucky
that I still had cash, the thief didn’t rob my money.
In the Police Department, I
made a Police record about what was happening to me, the Police made one letter
Surat pengaduan and they suggested to me that I must go to the service counter for saving my
handphone number. Luckily there was one man that I met in the Police Department
wanted to help me to go to the nearest service counter, then I went with him.
I went to Cempaka Mas, but it
was zero cause nothing I’ve found related to Indosat service counter inside
that mall. Then I went to Kelapa Gading by ojek, then again some people said, the
Indosat has been moved out to Rawamangun. Then I hurried up go to Rawamangun. Finally i arrived at Indosat, then I began to tell
the Indosat service center what was really
happened, then they give me one chip same as my number before.
I lost my handphone including important
data. As I live to be a good person, I always wanted to be good for every
reason. I don’t know that in their heart
and mind they are infact so evil. I can not take any revenge on this case,
let’s God punish them for what they have done to me. I hope they are more suffering
than me and having physically illness their whole lives.
