A 23-year-old resident of Jatinegara, East Jakarta died yesterday during a robbery that took place on Roa Malaka Utara street in Tambora, West Jakarta.
According to the police, the victim, who is identified as Muthia Nabila, was driving her motorcycle on the street when two men on a motorcycle came up on her left and snatched her purse. CCTV footage circulating of the incident shows Muthia attempting to chase the robbers before losing control of her vehicle and falling right in front of a moving car.
The collision with the car reportedly caused severe head trauma in Muthia, who passed away from her injuries soon after the incident.
Police say that the young woman had plans to get married after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
“[The date of the wedding] hadn’t been set, just that it was going to happen after COVID-19,” West Jakarta Police’s Crime Investigation Unit Head Teuku Arsya Khadafi told Detik today.
Police have yet to identify the two robbers.
Motorcyclists are especially vulnerable to street crime in Jakarta, being easy targets for robbers — often on motorcycles themselves — who are known to snatch valuable belongings and then driving away. Such robberies led to fatal outcomes in the past, such as an incident in 2018 in which a robber pulled down a woman from her motorcycle in a high-speed mugging, killing her.
