Two men were arrested by the Indonesian police on March 25 in connection with the suspected murder of a Singaporean man, whose wrapped-up body was found in one of the country’s largest rivers and cast in cement.
The 80-year-old man’s body was found in the Citanduy River in Cilacap, said local police in a statement on March 27. Cilacap is a coastal town in Central Java, more than 380km away from Jakarta, where the Singaporean was based.
A third man, suspected to have masterminded the alleged premeditated killing, is still at large, said Cilacap police chief Budi Adhy Buono.
He added that the death could be tied to a love triangle involving the dead man, a woman and the suspected mastermind.
The Singaporean man had been reported missing in the Tanah Abang area of Jakarta, where he lived in his family home, Mr Budi said, without revealing when he was reported missing.
