M. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Police on Tuesday named two new suspects in the 2004 murder case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.
National Police Chief Gen. Sutanto said after a cabinet meeting that the new suspects were former officials from national airline Garuda Indonesia.
"They are officials from Garuda with initials IS and R," Sutanto told reporters at the Presidential Palace.
The initials match those of Garuda's ex-president director, Indra Setiawan, and corporate security vice president, Ramelgia Anwar.
Sutanto said separately that R had issued an assignment letter to pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, the only person ever to be charged in the murder case.
"The document was issued on orders from his superior, IS," said Sutanto.
Sutanto also said that the police were now continuing their investigation and would name more suspects in the coming days.
"We are still building this case," he said.
Munir, co-founder of human rights organizations Imparsial and Kontras, was found dead on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on Sept. 7, 2004.
Munir was a critic of Indonesia's military, accusing it of rights violations in the troubled provinces of Aceh and Papua and of running a network involved in illegal logging and drug smuggling. Following his death, Munir's widow reported receiving anonymous threats demanding she not implicate the military in her husband's death.
An autopsy conducted by Dutch authorities found excessive amounts of arsenic in his body, indicating that he was murdered on the one-hour leg of the flight from Jakarta to Singapore.
Rights activists have recently speculated that new suspects in the case would come from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).
A government-sanctioned fact-finding team has indicated that at least six persons, including Pollycarpus and secretary to Garuda's chief pilot Rohainil Aini, were involved in Munir's death.
The team also implicated two unamed persons linked to BIN, along with Garuda's former president director and the vice president of corporate security.
In October 2006, a Supreme Court verdict cleared Pollycarpus of murder charges, leaving no one to be held accountable the murder of Munir.
Pollycarpus was an off-duty pilot of Garuda on the same flight with Munir from Singapore to the Netherlands. He was the first to administer medical assistance to Munir when the effect of the poison began to take hold.
Police on Tuesday named two new suspects in the 2004 murder case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.
National Police Chief Gen. Sutanto said after a cabinet meeting that the new suspects were former officials from national airline Garuda Indonesia.
"They are officials from Garuda with initials IS and R," Sutanto told reporters at the Presidential Palace.
The initials match those of Garuda's ex-president director, Indra Setiawan, and corporate security vice president, Ramelgia Anwar.
Sutanto said separately that R had issued an assignment letter to pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, the only person ever to be charged in the murder case.
"The document was issued on orders from his superior, IS," said Sutanto.
Sutanto also said that the police were now continuing their investigation and would name more suspects in the coming days.
"We are still building this case," he said.
Munir, co-founder of human rights organizations Imparsial and Kontras, was found dead on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on Sept. 7, 2004.
Munir was a critic of Indonesia's military, accusing it of rights violations in the troubled provinces of Aceh and Papua and of running a network involved in illegal logging and drug smuggling. Following his death, Munir's widow reported receiving anonymous threats demanding she not implicate the military in her husband's death.
An autopsy conducted by Dutch authorities found excessive amounts of arsenic in his body, indicating that he was murdered on the one-hour leg of the flight from Jakarta to Singapore.
Rights activists have recently speculated that new suspects in the case would come from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).
A government-sanctioned fact-finding team has indicated that at least six persons, including Pollycarpus and secretary to Garuda's chief pilot Rohainil Aini, were involved in Munir's death.
The team also implicated two unamed persons linked to BIN, along with Garuda's former president director and the vice president of corporate security.
In October 2006, a Supreme Court verdict cleared Pollycarpus of murder charges, leaving no one to be held accountable the murder of Munir.
Pollycarpus was an off-duty pilot of Garuda on the same flight with Munir from Singapore to the Netherlands. He was the first to administer medical assistance to Munir when the effect of the poison began to take hold.
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