Police staged a reconstruction of the events that they believe led to the murder of a 20-year-old military cadet last weekend in Jimbaran.
Crime reconstructions are routine in Bali for police to determine suspects’ roles.
Prada Yanuar Setiawan of Manggarai, Flores was stabbed to death early on Sunday morning on the Jl. Ngurah Rai By Pass in front of Taman Griya.
Setiawan had been driving by motorbike with a friend, who was injured but not killed, and hospitalized following the attack.
The two were ambushed by a group of young men on motorcycles. Police this week arrested eight suspects related to the case.
In the reconstruction held on Tuesday evening, police had stand-ins for Setiawan and his friend who were headed on the By Pass towards Nusa Dua that fateful morning.
A group of the perpetrators blocked their way, pulling up to the victims which made the victims stop to avoid a collision. Things escalated very quickly, with the perpetrators getting into an argument with the victims and chasing them and fighting with them, according to the police reconstruction.
Blows were exchanged from both ends, but things quickly ended when one of the perpetrators pulled out a knife and stabbed Setiawan in the chest, then fled the scene.
The perpetrators were made to act out 26 scenes that police constructed from their investigation.
By scene 22, Setiawan was stabbed by one of the perpetrators, identified by initials DKDA, 16.
It’s been alleged that DKDA is the son of a Bali DPRD councilman.
DKDA will receive no special treatment because of who his father may or may not be, Bali’s police chief said earlier this week. However, the case will be treated differently because there are minors involved as suspects in the case.
Police apparently did not hold the reenactment at the actual scene of the crime since it is in a busy area and they did not want to spark another incident.
“Indeed, we are deliberately holding the reconstruction not at the scene directly to avoid an undesirable outcome,” Denpasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit head Aris Purwanto told Merdeka.
While violent street crime in Bali is not an everyday occurrence, police have observed a noticeable increase, recently. As a response to the cadet’s stabbing, Bali Police announced earlier this week that it has formed a special team to fight street crime, targeting motorcycle gangs and muggers.
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