Jakarta Globe, Alin Almanar, October 11, 2016
Jakarta.
The State Secretariat has denied that it has been ordered by public information
commissioners to disclose results of an investigation conducted years ago into
the murder of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib.
A verdict,
issued on Tuesday (11/10) by the commissioners, orders the secretariat to
reveal documents of the investigation to the public. It was conducted over half
a year starting in December 2004, when a fact-finding team was established.
The
secretariat issued an official statement on Tuesday saying that "media
reports that the State Secretariat has been ordered to announce investigation
results from the fact-finding team are not true."
The
statement said the commissioners only ordered the secretariat to "announce
information, which basically says that the State Secretariat does not have,
posses, or know the whereabouts of the questioned documents."
"It is
in accordance with the facts and evidence in the consideration of the Public
Information Commission members," secretariat spokesman Masrokhan said in
the statement.
"It is
impossible for the State Secretariat to announce reports it does not
possess."
Monday's
decision came in favor a complaint filed by several human rights groups. They
have long urged a resolution of the case involving the murder of Munir, who was
poisoned with arsenic during a layover in Singapore in September 2004 before
boarding a flight to Amsterdam.
The alleged
masterminds behind the incident have yet to be identified, with investigation
results from the fact-finding team never having been disclosed. They were
submitted to then-President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in June 2005 and the team
was subsequently dissolved.
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