Team to split military, civilian suspects

JAKARTA: The joint team probing the July 27, 1996 attack on the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) office in Central Jakarta decided on Wednesday to split the case files of military suspects and civilians in order to facilitate the investigation.

There will be three separate case files for the military suspects including former Jakarta military commander Let. Gen. (ret) Sutiyoso and former National Intelligence Body chief Maj. Gen. Zacky Anwar Makarim, said National Police chief of detectives Comr. Gen. Suyitno Landung Sudjono who chairs the team.

He said all civilians suspects would be tried based on six case files sent to the team. "This is to make it easier to collect and present evidence and witnesses in the court," argued Suyitno. --JP