Detik.com - December 1, 2005
Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta - Although the sentence
being
sought by the public prosecutor for Pollycarpus is
considered just, the former secretary of the Munir
Fact
Finding Team (TPF), Usman Hamid, has urged that the
investigation in to the Munir murder case not end with
Pollycarpus.
Hamid is urging police to follow through with the
recommendations of the TPF, which were presented to
the
president because it was very clear from the report
that
the TPF concluded that the premeditated murder of
Munir
involved a criminal conspiracy.
"It involved certain people from Garuda (PT Garuda
Indonesia) and BIN (the National Intelligence
Agency)",
asserted Hamid after a hearing of the Munir case at
the
Central Jakarta State Court on Jalan Gajah Mada on
Thursday
December 1.
The activist from the Commission for Missing Persons
and
Victims of Violence (Kontras) said that Kontras will
continue to urge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
and the
national police to pursue the case until it is
completely
solved.
"If the related parties are not prosecuted it will
later
become our (Kontras) demand. We are truly asking the
national police and the prosecution to take steps to
follow
it up", he said.
During the Central Jakarta State Court hearing, the
prosecution demanded that Pollycarpus be jailed for
life.
Pollycarpus has been found guilty of and determined to
have
committed premeditated murder. He has also been found
guilty of using false documents to obtain facilities
and
flight accommodation between Jakarta and Singapore on
September 6, 2004. (umi)
[Translated by James Balowski.]
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