TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Chief of Presidential Staff Teten Masduki said that the Attorney General Office (AGO) is allowed to investigate officials from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration to uncover the whereabouts of lost documents of the Fact Finding Team (TPF) for human rights activists Munir Said Thalib murder case.
Teten said that the investigation has been included in the AGO's authority. "The President has provided clear instructions to the AGO and the message is clear, to solve the issue through legal means," Teten said on Friday, October 21, 2016.
The Commission for Public Information (KIP) recently stated that the government should make the Munir case investigation documents open for public. However, the government have not revealed the data because it was lost.
Back in 2015, it was President Susilo "SBY" Bambang Yudhoyono who was said to have received the documents from the TPF.
Yusril Ihza Mahendra, State Secretary Minister during the SBY government denied statements saying that the documents were handed over to the State Secretary Minister.
"The document was never handed over to the State Secretary, but directly to the president. TPF never gave the document to the State Secretary, so it was not recorded in the State Secretary's list of incoming documents," Yusril said through WhatsApp messaging on Wednesday, October 12, 2016.
Meanwhile, Teten claimed that he has no information on whether the AGO had made plans to examine officials of the SBY government suspected to have information about the documents.
ISTMAN M.P.
