Jakarta – The police has named a total of 66 suspects allegedly involved in violence that led to the death of North Sumatra Provincial Legislative Council Speaker Abdul Aziz Angkat last week. All suspects had been detained at Medan Police Headquarters.

North Sumatra Police chief of detectives, Sr. Comr. Wawan Irawan said Thursday that the suspects were classifieds into eight groups. "We classified them into initiators, financiers, mass gatherers, field coordinators, and [four groups of] demonstrators," he said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Aziz died of a heart attack last week, hours after he was attacked in Medan by a mob protesting his decision to postpone a plenary session to discuss the proposal for the creation of a new province called Tapanuli.

Wawan said that among the names included in the initiators group was Chandra Panggabean, who chairs a committee advocating the creation of Tapanuli province. Chandra is also Sinar Indonesia Baru newspaper's deputy publisher and editorial board chairman.

He said police investigation was expected to be finished by March 3. The police are charging the suspects violating five articles of the Criminal Code, including inciting violence and premeditated murder.

Wawan however failed to explain which suspects were charged for premeditating murder. (dre)