The UN Human Rights Council has invited Suciwati, wife of the late human rights activists Munir Said Thalib, for a meeting to discuss the latest developments in his murder case.
Vice coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Indria Fernida confirmed the invitation, saying that it reflected how relevant Munir's murder was to the global effort to protect human rights.
Indira said the invitation came from Margaret Sekaggya, a special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council.
"Margaret will make clarifications on the murder case and then file an official report based on those," Indira said.
The meeting, she said, was scheduled to be held in Bangkok from Jan. 18 until Jan. 20. Suciwati will be accompanied by officials from Kontras, the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) and Imparsial.
So far, the justice system has found former Garuda Indonesia pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto guilty of direct involvement in poisoning Munir with arsenic in his flight to Amsterdam in September 2004. Pollycarpus was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On Dec. 31 the South Jakarta District Court acquitted the alleged mastermind of the murder, former top intelligence agency executive Muchdi Purwopranjono, from all charges due to a lack of proof.
After meeting Sekaggya, Suciwati is scheduled to meet the special rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, and special rapporteur on Judicial Independence and the council's working group on forceful disappearance.
HRWG coordinator Raffendy Jamin said completing the four stages of queries would mean that the next UN Human Rights Assembly in March would schedule a topic on Munir's murder as a meeting agenda.
"The assembly meeting would produce questions that must be answered by Indonesia's Foreign Ministry," Raffendy said. (and)
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