Jakarta Globe, Novi Setuningsih, October 27, 2016
Jakarta.
Presidential spokesman Johan Budi said on Thursday (27/10) that President Joko
"Jokowi" Widodo has received a copy of missing investigation files on
the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib from former minister Sudi
Silalahi.
Sudi, who
was former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's cabinet secretary, handed over
the copy at the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon,
Johan told the reporters.
"Now
the documents are in the hands of the State Secretariat. They will be copied
for the Attorney General's Office," he said.
The files —
which were submitted to Yudhoyono by an independent fact-finding team in 2005 —
were found to be missing earlier this month after the Central Information Commission ordered the State Secretariat to make the documents public in
response to a lawsuit filed by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims
of Violence (Kontras).
The State
Secretariat claimed the files were not stored at its headquarters, prompting
allegations that they were deliberately misplaced when Yudhoyono was still in
office.
The former
president denied the allegations, saying he is more than willing to help
President Jokowi solve the murder case by providing copies of the documents.
Earlier,
Chief Security Minister Wiranto said the government should study the documents
before taking further steps on the case, including whether or not to continue the investigation.
Activists
have long demanded that the government find Munir's real killer. The activist
was poisoned with arsenic during a brief layover in Singapore in 2004, before
boarding a flight to Amsterdam.
Former
pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was sentenced to 14 years in prison for
premeditated murder. However, the masterminds behind Munir's murder remain
unknown, while the investigation results have never been disclosed to the
public.
Former
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addressing the media at his
house in Cikeas, Bogor district, West Java, on
on Tuesday (25/10). (Antara Photo/
Yulius Satria Wijaya)
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