Expert charges for signature

Expert charges for signature

JAKARTA: Forensic expert Mun'im Idris charged up to Rp 10 million
to mark his signature on his ownown expert testimony on the killing
of four Trisakti University students in 1998, forcing an inquiry
team to scrap it from its report.

Usman Hamid, secretary of the inquiry on human rights abuse in
the Trisakti, Semanggi I and Semanggi II incidents, said on
Monday that Mun'im included in its autopsy report that there had
been attempts by the military and the police to obscure the
investigation on the bullets, used in the shootings.

"But, because we have yet to reach a deal on the price while
the inquiry no longer has much time to complete the dossiers on
the case, we've decided to put Mun'im's testimonies in the
recommendation section of the report," Usman told a media
briefing.

According to Usman, Mun'im had set a fee of Rp 2.5 million for
his expertise and had previously received Rp 600,000 from the
House of Representatives special committee investigating the same
case.

The inquiry team, established by the National Commission on
Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has completed the correction on the
dossiers and planned to submit it to the human rights ad hoc
prosecutors of the Attorney General's Office on Monday.

"But, Attorney General M.A. Rachman is sick, so we've been
told to postpone the plan," Usman said. --JP