Witness testifies against Pollycarpus

Witness testifies against Pollycarpus

JAKARTA: Garuda Indonesia vice president of corporate security
Ramelgia Anwar testified on Tuesday that he did not know who
assigned pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, charged with
playing a role in the murder of Munir, to fly to Singapore on the
same flight as the rights campaigner.

Testifying at the trial of Pollycarpus on Tuesday, he told the
Central Jakarta District Court that he only learned of the
pilot's assignment to Singapore after reading a flight report
filed by the suspect himself.

"But I do not know who gave him the assignment," Ramelgia
said.

Munir died on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on
Sept. 7 last year. He is believed to have been poisoned during
the first leg of the flight from Jakarta to Singapore.

In the previous court session, former Garuda president
director Indra Setiawan said Pollycarpus was acting as a
"corporate security officer", not a pilot, when he flew on the
same flight as Munir.

However, Ramelgia denied this, saying Pollycarpus did not
perform the duties of a corporate security officer during the
flight to Singapore. --Antara