Jakarta – The police claim to have new evidence as regards declaring former Garuda Indonesia Managing Director Indra Setiawan and Vice President forAviation Security Ramelgia Anwar as suspects in the murder case of human rights activist Munir.
According to Insp. Gen. Sisno Adiwinoto, Head of Public Relations at the National Police (Polri) headquarters, the police are also still keeping back the names of other possible suspects.
"However, neither the new evidences nor the names of the other possible suspects can yet be announced to the general public in the interests of the investigation," he told Tempo yesterday (11/4). "These will be announced at the right time," said Sisno.
However, the Solidarity Actions Committee for Munir viewed the suspect Indra and Ramelgia from another perspective. "This is a joke," said Rachland Nasidik, a committee's member.
According to Rachland, the declaration of the two suspects regarding the forgery of a letter for Pollycarpus was only to conceal the process of Munir's murder which had been planned well. "Can the police connect the forged letter with Munir's murder?" he asked
Rachland also questioned the statement of Polri Chief Gen. Sutanto's, in which the time and location of Munir's murder was changed from previously being inside a Garuda aircraft on the Jakarta-Singapore route to Changi Airport, Singapore.
Therefore, Usman Hamid, Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), asked the police to trace everything that Munir experienced before he died – the evidence of a telephone call from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) office to Pollycarpus and the condition of Munir who was pale when he arrived in Singapore. "There is a possibility that Munir was poisoned several times since he left Jakarta," he said.
Indra Setiawan's legal advisor, Mohammad Assegaf, said the police were careless by declaring his client as a suspect. "This isn't logical because Indra is related to the matter of issuing Pollycarpus' assignment letter which is considered presumed as invalid. What's the connection between Indra and Munir?" asked Assegaf.
According to him, it is very probable that the police acted carelessly due to extraordinary pressure from the general public.
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