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Forensic expert Mun'im dies at 66
(Antara)In every big murder case shaking the country, you would find the name of Abdul Munâim Idris, a forensic expert from Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) in Central Jakarta
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In every big murder case shaking the country, you would find the name of Abdul Mun'im Idris, a forensic expert from Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) in Central Jakarta.
The man who sat on the trial of many high-profile cases as an expert witness passed away at the age of 66 in the Intensive Care Unit of RSCM on Friday. He died from pancreatic cancer despite a six-and-a-half-hour surgery on Tuesday.
Born in Pekalongan on May 25, 1947, Mun'im got a general practitioner degree from the Medical Faculty of the University of Indonesia in 1971. Of all popular specializations, he took forensic study and completed the course in the same university in 1979.
He held various positions at universities and also gave lectures in the Attorney General's Office (AGO) training center and in various private medical schools such as Trisakti and Atmajaya.
Mun'im's forensic expertise had been used to analyze criminal cases such as the 1997 shocking case of Robot Gedek, who was charged with sodomizing and killing a number of street children, the death of labor icon Marsinah from 20 years ago and serial killer Very 'Ryan' Idham Henyansyah, who slaughtered 11 people.
He also revealed certain marks on the rectum of late Malaysian terrorist Noordin M. Top to indicate that he was frequently sodomized before he was shot in the Central Java town of Surakarta in 2009.
Mun'im also worked on the visum et repertum of Nasarudin Zulkarnain, the Director of PT Rajawali Putra Banjaran, who was shot in the head in Bumi Serpong Damai in 2009.
In his book titled X-Files, Mun'im gave his forensic analyses on 20 cases, including the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. He also gave his opinion on the need to do the visum to first president Sukarno to find out the cause of his death.
City police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said that Jakarta police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno visited Mun'im's funeral at the Menteng Pulo cemetery in Setiabudi, South Jakarta.
'Some officers at city police can't attend the funeral because we have to work. But we express our condolences to the deceased's family,' he told reporters at his office on Friday.
City police crime sub-directorate chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Herry Heryawan said the police owed Mun'im a lot, he helped the police uncover various motives behind murder cases.
Mun'im was buried in the public cemetery at Menteng Pulo in South Jakarta on Friday. He left behind two wives and six children. (ogi)
