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title: "More Radioactive Substances Found at Jakarta Housing Complex"
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#  More Radioactive Substances Found at Jakarta Housing Complex

 Written by Zoe Rutherford on 16 March 2020.

In a follow up to the story we posted on March 2nd the National Police’s criminal investigation department (Bareskrim) in Jakarta have discovered more radioactive materials at the Batan Indah housing complex, one month after authorities made a similar discovery in the same residential area.

Brig. Gen. Agung Budijono, a director from Bareskrim, said that radioactive materials containing Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes had been found in a house owned by a late-National Nuclear Energy Agency employee identified as Gangsar. The house was now occupied by his daughter who knew nothing about the substances found in the house’s storeroom.

Bareskrim has named a Batan employee identified only as SM as a suspect of illegal ownership of radioactive substances following the discovery of the substances by the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) in February. Not long after that, Bapeten and the police found late last month radioactive substances at SM’s house. Police found that the Batan employee had opened a decontamination service for extra income.

SM was charged with violating Articles 42 and 43 of the 1997 Nuclear Energy Law, which carries a maximum punishment of two years of imprisonment and a Rp 100 million (US$6,885) fine. (vny)

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