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Munir's burial set for Sunday

JAKARTA: The body of leading rights campaigner Munir is expected to arrive in Indonesia on Saturday for burial, after doctors in the Netherlands completed an autopsy.

One of Munir's colleagues, Todung Mulya Lubis, said Munir's remains would be flown directly to Malang in East Java soon after arrival at Soekarno-Hatta Airport at 5 p.m. on Saturday.

"There will be no procession to allow the public to pay their last respects at the airport," Todung said, adding that the burial would take place on Sunday morning at Sisir Cemetery in Batu, near Malang.

On Thursday evening, dozens of non-governmental organization activists and journalists in Surabaya held a mass prayer for Munir and for the victims killed in a terror attack in front of Australian Embassy in Jakarta earlier on Thursday.

In Jakarta, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda said the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague had reported that the doctors had completed the autopsy on Munir and found no signs of irregularities in the death of the rights activist.

"The medical team said it would conduct another examination if it found irregularities in the first autopsy," Hassan said.

Hassan said, however, that Indonesia had not been given access to the autopsy results, which would be submitted only to the Dutch justice ministry.

"The ministry will decide whether the postmortem report will be handed over to Indonesia," Hassan said.

Munir died onboard a flight to the Netherlands on Tuesday, just two hours before landing at Schiphol International Airport. He had received a scholarship to pursue a master's degree on human rights at Utrecht University.