Team formed to find bodies

Team formed to find bodies

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: Lampung Police Chief Col. Gendro Budi
Santoso said here yesterday that a fact-finding team had been
formed to investigate reports of 14 dead bodies sighted in the
Umpu River in Blambangan Umpu district, North Lampung.

"This case has risen to become a national case. So in order
for it not to become confusing and to dig up the truth, the
Lampung Police has formed a fact-finding team," he said as quoted
by Antara.

The team is comprised of the police intelligence chief, the
Lampung Utara Police chief, journalists from the Lampung branch
of the Indonesian Journalists Association and members of the
Bandar Lampung office of the Legal Aid Foundation.

The team began their investigation without much fanfare on
Monday by traveling to the reported location of the sightings.

So far, they have only confirmed that one body had been found
and identified. The man, found about two weeks ago, was
reportedly in his mid 30s.

Human rights groups in Jakarta had asked the government to
seriously look into the reported sightings after there was public
speculation that the bodies could be the ones of missing
activists.