Jakarta – Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (Kasum) members expressed disappointment after a meeting between the Central Jakarta District Court and PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines was adjourned.

"The Court was not professional in summoning the parties involved. The letter to Garuda went to the wrong address... The summons were all in vain," Ratna Ningwulandari of Kasum said Tuesday. He explained that parties essential to the case had not been summoned.

Only two representatives of the summoned Garuda crew attended the meeting, leading Kasum, who provides Suciwati with legal assistance, to question the court's seriousness. Ratna said the adjourned meeting would be held on July 5.

The court has summoned Garuda for its failure to carry out the Supreme Court order of paying Rp 664,209,000 (US$75,000) compensation to the wife of Munir after she sued the airline company in relation to her husband's death. Munir died of arsenic poisoning in 2004 aboard a Garuda GA 974 plane during a flight to Amsterdam.

The Central Jakarta District Court determined that Garuda's former president director Indra Setiawan and the plane's captain Pantun Matondang were negligent in failing to perform an emergency landing when Munir required medical attention. (awd)