Expert adamant on cause of Lt. Dadang's death<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A forensic doctor said yesterday she was
\nprepared to put her job on the line in differing from official
\npolice reports on the death of a Bogor Police officer last month.<\/p>\n
Police said a student mob stoned Second Lt. Dadang Rusmana,
\n43, during a break in a demonstration at Juanda University on May
\n9 and that he subsequently died of a head injury.<\/p>\n
But Yuli Budiningsih Tjatur of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI)
\nBogor Hospital, who conducted an autopsy on Dadang's body on the
\nday of his death, concluded he died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n
She said yesterday she did not want the public to make hasty
\njudgments on the alleged involvement of students.<\/p>\n
\"I hope the people do not easily judge the students by calling
\nthem evil and that they dared to kill a police officer.\"<\/p>\n
A ruling could only come through a trial, she told reporters
\nat the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital here.<\/p>\n
Yuli, also a lecturer at the School of Medicine of the
\nUniversity of Indonesia, announced Saturday her conclusion on the
\ndeath of Dadang, head of the intelligence unit of Bogor City
\nPolice.<\/p>\n
Police maintained Dadang died from a head injury sustained
\nafter a rock was thrown at him by students when he tried to
\nintervene to rescue a military intelligence officer, Capt. Ali,
\nfrom a student mobbing. Ali remains hospitalized.<\/p>\n
Students have insisted they attacked Ali because he was
\ndisrespectful by entering the university's mosque without
\nremoving his shoes outside.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses claim Dadang's body was not at the scene when
\nthey were dispersed by hundreds of police and military officers
\nwho entered the campus.<\/p>\n
Yuli said her findings were supported by all of her
\ncolleagues, including a forensic expert from the Bogor Regional
\nPolice, Abdullah.<\/p>\n
The latter also took part in the autopsy of the officer
\ntogether with hospital staff and dozens of police officers.<\/p>\n
\"He told me 'Don't be afraid. I agree with you. Although I
\nwork for the police, I'm also a doctor',\" Yuli said.<\/p>\n
\"I felt relieved.\"<\/p>\n
Autopsy results have been submitted to the Bogor Police.<\/p>\n
A police officer, she said, had visited her forensic
\nlaboratory recently and questioned an employee why the autopsy
\nfinding differed with the police investigator.<\/p>\n
\"'I'm the investigator, I have obtained confessions from the
\nstudents that they hit the officer, and a reenactment has been
\nheld. This autopsy result has negated our investigation',\" she
\nquoted the officer as saying.<\/p>\n
When asked for comment yesterday, Bogor Regional Police Chief
\nCol. Abubakar Nataprawira said he had yet to study the autopsy
\nreport.<\/p>\n
\"I haven't read it but the confession of the three students
\nand reenactment revealed that the students hit the police officer
\nwith a wooden bat, stone and stepped on his stomach,\" he told The
\nJakarta Post.<\/p>\n
\"Maybe Dadang had coronary disease and he died of shock after
\nhe was beaten. But to be certain of who was responsible for his
\ndeath, let's wait for a court verdict.\"<\/p>\n
Three Juanda University students have been named as suspects
\nin Dadang's death.<\/p>\n
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Da'i Bachtiar expressed
\nconcern yesterday over Yuli's public announcement. He told the
\nPost that the doctor should have discussed her report with the
\nlocal police before making a statement. (ivy\/edt)<\/p>",
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