Aceh politician's murder unsolved

Aceh politician's murder unsolved

JAKARTA: House Speaker Akbar Tandjung on Tuesday criticized
the police for having failed to resolve the January, 2000 murder
of an Acehnese politician in Medan, North Sumatra.

"The police have been working for two years, and nothing has
come out," Akbar told reporters after a meeting with National
Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar.

Legislator Tengku Nashiruddin Daud of the United Development
Party (PPP) was murdered by four men. Da'i said three of the
suspects had fled to Malaysia, and one had died.

Nashiruddin was deputy chairman of the House's special
committee investigating past human rights abuses in the restive
province of Aceh. He was found dead at his hotel in Medan.

Akbar met Da'i to get a first-hand account of the case, which
he believed would be under scrutiny in the International
Parliament Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in January.

Da'i said that he had sought cooperation with Malaysian police
to help locate the suspects. "We will try our best to make the
results public soon," Da'i said. -- JP