Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling for a further investigation into the murder of human rights activist Munir.

Kontras coordinator Usman Hamid said Wednesday that Munir's murder trial had ended in disarray, with judges handing down a questionable 14-year jail sentence to his convicted murderer, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto.

Usman said Central Jakarta District Court judges had noted that Pollycarpus had made 41 phone calls to Muhdi Purwo Prandjono, a deputy head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), in the days prior to Munir's murder in 2004. However, neither the judges nor prosecutors did anything to follow up this evidence, he said.

The conversations give credence to allegations that Pollycarpus worked for BIN. "Now that the whole trial has ended up in confusion and the verdict has satisfied no one... the case should be investigated again from square one," Usman told Antara.

Both Pollycarpus' lawyers and the prosecutors have appealed the verdict.