Slamet's dossier return to police
Slamet's dossier return to police
Chaidir Anwar Tanjung, The Jakarta Post, Pekanbaru, Riau
Prosecutors said here on Thursday they had returned the case file
of Mas Slamet bin Kastari, the alleged chief operative in
Singapore of the Jamaah Islamiyah terrorist network, to police in
Riau province for revision.
"Because the dossier does not meet the formal and material
requirements, we returned it to investigators in the Riau Police
headquarters for completion," spokesman for the provincial
prosecutor's office Dippuan Siallagan told The Jakarta Post.
He declined to elaborate further, but underlined that if the
dossier was not revised, Slamet and his lawyers could counter the
evidence presented in the case file.
"If we press ahead with taking the case to trial with the
existing evidence, the suspect could be acquitted of all
charges," Dippuan said.
"Hence, we want the police to complete the dossier to avoid
that," he added.
Slamet was arrested last month by police in the town of
Tanjung Pinang, Riau. Singapore put him on its list of wanted
people accused of plotting terrorist attacks in the neighboring
country.
He was later flown to Riau for further questioning on charges
of breaching immigration regulations as the suspect had allegedly
forged his passport and travel documents.
The police have not as yet leveled charges of terrorism
against Slamet.
Dippuan said his office also returned the dossiers of four
other suspects -- head of the Mandau subdistrict Saparian in
Bengkalis regency, his two staff members Refinoer and Fakrul, as
well as Fatmawati who works for a local immigration service
bureau.
The four were accused of assisting and facilitating the
arrangement of Slamet's passport and identity card in Bengkalis.
Dippuan said prosecutors were studying the case file of the
fifth suspect, Ridwan, a broker at the Dumai immigration office,
who allegedly helped Slamet to obtain travel documents.
The prosecutor did not rule out the possibility of also giving
back Ridwan's dossier to the Riau police.
Slamet's wife, Norlela binti Sahali, has also been questioned
at the Tanjung Pinang Police station on similar charges of
holding a fake passport.
Police investigating detained suspects in the Bali bombings
that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreigners, have linked
the devastating blasts to Jamaah Islamiyah.
Singapore, which accused Slamet of involvement in an attempt
to hijack planes in the island state, has demanding that the
suspect be extradited. But the Indonesia government turned down
the request.