Munir team plans complaint for SBY

Munir team plans complaint for SBY

JAKARTA: The government-sanctioned fact finding team, set up
to assist the police in the investigation into the death of
rights campaigner Munir will make a formal report to the
President about its difficulty in obtaining access to the State
Intelligence Agency (BIN).

A team member, Usman Hamid, said the President was expected to
help it clear the hurdle. Several former and current BIN
officials have refused to respond to the team's summonses for
questioning, including the former deputy BIN chief, whose session
was scheduled for Friday.

On Wednesday, the team could not question Nurhadi Djazuli or
Suparto, the former and current BIN secretaries-general. On
Monday next week, the team is slated to meet with former BIN
chief A.M. Hendropriyono.

"If Hendropriyono fails to turn up, then we must talk to the
President as the team actually has signed a protocol with the
current BIN chief Syamsir Siregar, which enables us to summon its
officials and to get access to related documents," Usman said. --
JP