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