Last Friday night, a person living in Bekasi’s Jatirahayu Village made a startling discovery – 62 plastic bags filled with Rp 50,000 and Rp 100,000 bills that had been abandoned in a landfill located on Jalan Bakti.
Amazingly, the resident did not take the money but instead reported it to the Bekasi Police (perhaps they had seen enough mafia movies to know that taking the money would’ve only led to very bad things happening).
The police secured the plastic bags containing Rp 50,000 and Rp 100,000 bills on a vacant lot located on Jalan Bakti in Pondok Gede, Bekasi. Police said the bags had actually been sitting in the landfill for six days but because they were tied off nobody had seen the contents until they were exposed by tears. Children had even been seen playing with the bags earlier in the week
After the bags were secured by police, officers from Bank Indonesia came to examine the money and found that it was authentic currency, not counterfeit. However, the bills had been judged unfit for circulation and were supposed to have been given to a third party for safe disposal.
Police said they would work with Bank Indonesia to investigate where the money could have come from and if a third party was somehow stealing bills removed from circulation.
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