REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Police are investigating a mysterious shooting incident that took place at a TransJakarta bus shelter over the bridge of Cawang Station in Jalan MT Haryono, East Jakarta, at 1.30 am on Friday.

"Police investigators have visited the location and examined the scene of the incident," said Sr Comr Rikwanto, Jakarta Regional Police chief spokesman, on Friday.

He stated that when the shooting took place, M Riskan, a Transjakarta security guard, was at the bus shelter and heard a gunshot. The guard then found that the glass wall of the shelter had been broken, and upon looking outside, he saw a passing black minibus, Rikwanto continued.

"The bus was in the fast lane, heading towards Cawang," he said.

Rikwanto added that police investigators had gathered witnesses and pieces of evidence in order to identify the perpetrators.

Over the past several days, a number of mysterious shooting attacks on police officers have taken place. First Adjunct Inspector Dwiatno, from the Cilandak sub-precinct police station in Ciputat, South Tangerang municipality, Banten province, was shot dead by an unidentified man on Wednesday (August 7). Earlier, on July 27, Second Adjunct Inspector Saktiyono, from the Traffic Unit at Central Jakarta Police, was shot by two motorcyclists on Cirendeu Road, Ciputat, at 4.30am.

Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has stated that police must analyze the several mysterious shooting attacks on its personnel in recent days and train as hard as possible to tackle such situations.

"The National Police should examine the shooting phenomenon seriously and train its members to the maximum extent possible to deal with such problems," IPW Presidium Chairman Neta S Pane stated here on Wednesday.

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