TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said he is ready to take President Joko Widodo's order to search for investigative documents about the death of Munir Said Thalib that were collected by the case's fact-finding team (TPF).
"We will do it as it is the command of the head of state," Prasetyo told Tempo, Thursday, October 13.
Prasetyo said he will assign his Deputy Attorney General for Intelligence to contact former members of the fact-finding team. "Hopefully they have the archive".
These documents, Prasetyo added, will allow the prosecutor to take the next steps to handle the murder of KontraS founder Munir.
Prasetyo said that the Munir murder case continues to be investigated, and legal actions have been taken.
"Some of [the perpetrators] have been given court rulings, some are serving the punishment for their crime, some have even completed their sentences," the Attorney General said.
The documents related to the alleged murderer, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, as well as other suspects, Prasetyo said, have been submitted to court.
The issue now is the legality of the fact finding team's documents is being questioned.
"The documents are said to have been submitted to the former government, and they were never found again. According to the State Secretariat, the documents are now gone," Prasetyo added.
Prasetyo said that he will look for the documents because he has received instructions from the President.
Prasetyo hoped that former TPF members will submit the files to the Attorney General. "Or we can also send officers to pick them up."
If or when the documents are found, the AG will be able to look at the facts and decide whether or not they need to reopen the case.
He said that law enforcement processes can only be taken based on facts and evidence, "not by assumptions or perceptions. If there are facts and evidences that need to be reexamined, we will act upon them and hand them over to investigators."
The Munir murder fact finding team was established to seek for the causes and actors behind the crime. Munir, a the human rights activist and founder of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), died from poisoning during his plane ride from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004.
The court has ruled senior Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto guilty of the murder. But Muni's family and human rights activists believe there are other actors who played a part in killing Munir.
President Joko Widodo aims to solve the mystery of Munir's death once and for all, and ordered Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo to track down the documents containing the investigation results. Former member of the fact finding team, Hendardi, said the document was given to previous president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The State Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary said they do not have the papers.
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