Abductions & Extra-judicial Killings

April 2008

News/Indonesia
Kompas – April 15, 2008

Jakarta – The government must provide protection to Indra Setiawan after his release from jail on Monday April 14. The reason, because during his court hearing, the former executive director of Garuda Indonesia airlines provided a great deal of key evidence in the case of the murder of human rights activist Munir.

March 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – March 19, 2008

Gagah Wijoseno, Jakarta – The European Union Parliament has issued a declaration calling on the Indonesian government to fully investigate the murder of human rights activist Munir. If Indonesia ignores the declaration, there is a possibility that EU countries will extend the ban on Indonesian airlines flying to Europe.

February 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – February 22, 2008

Indra Subagja Jakarta – The investigation into the murder of human rights activists Munir continues. Now that Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by the Supreme Court, police are now taking aim at other suspects – a number of which have already been questioned.

News/Indonesia
Kompas – February 20, 2008

Jakarta – The murder of human rights activists Munir will be one of the cases taken up in the annual report on human rights in Indonesia, which will be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in April. This is being done as a means to accelerate a resolution of the case.