Yudi Susanto not out of the woods yet<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Businessman Yudi Susanto, who was acquitted of
\nthe murder of labor activist Marsinah, is not completely out of
\nthe woods yet, with the discovery in his house of blood traces
\nidentified as belonging to the victim.<\/p>\n
East Java Police Chief Maj. Gen. Roesmanhadi was quoted by
\nAntara as saying yesterday that the finding supports the early
\ntheory that Marsinah was locked up in Yudi's house prior to her
\ndeath.<\/p>\n
Roesmanhadi was announcing the result of the first phase of
\nthe new investigation his office has launched following the
\nSupreme Court's decision to exonerate Yudi and eight other people
\nconvicted in the May 1993 murder trial.<\/p>\n
He said the blood sample, taken from a folding chair found in
\nYudi's house in Surabaya, was tested at the police laboratory. It
\nmatched with the blood of Marsinah, he added.<\/p>\n
The announcement came as legal experts argued that by law Yudi
\ncould not be tried for the same offense of which he had been
\nacquitted. The owner of PT Catur Putra Surya, the watchmaking
\ncompany in Sidoarjo where Marsinah worked, was found guilty by
\nthe lower court of masterminding the murder. The Supreme Court
\nexonerated him, and the other eight defendants, for lack of
\nevidence.<\/p>\n
Since the murder case was reopened last month, police have
\nquestioned four Sidoarjo military officers who were involved in
\nthe industrial dispute that Yudi was having with his employees.<\/p>\n
So far the investigation has failed to find any evidence
\nconnecting the officers with the murder.<\/p>\n
The officers did, however, acknowledge that they intervened
\nin the labor dispute on behalf of Yudi and played a role in
\nfiring some of the employees.<\/p>\n
Marsinah's mutilated body was found in a forest on May 9,
\n1993, several days after she led a labor strike at the factory.<\/p>\n
On May 5, she went up to the Sidoarjo military headquarters to
\nprotest against the dismissal of 13 fellow workers. Later in the
\nafternoon, she told her roommate that she was going out to buy
\nfood. She never returned and her body was found four days later
\nin Nganjuk, about 200 kilometers from Sidoarjo. (rms)<\/p>",
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