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'No politicization in efforts to resolve Munir's death': AGO
The attorney general has stated that there have been no attempts by the government to politicize efforts to resolve the poisoning death of prominent rights defender Munir Said Thalib following comments made by former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over a missing investigation report on the high-profile murder case.
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Activists of Victims Solidarity Network for Justice carry an umbrella bearing the words "Settle Munir's Murder Case, Sept. 7, 2004" in a weekly protest in front of the State Palace on Sept. 1. (Antara Photo/Sigid Kurniawan)
The attorney general has stated that there have been no attempts by the government to politicize efforts to resolve the poisoning death of prominent rights defender Munir Said Thalib following comments made by former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over a missing investigation report on the high-profile murder case.
"What is being politicized? It's wrong to make such an accusation when what we are seeking is the truth [...] all parties should respond [to the government's efforts] positively and not create such negative thinking," Attorney General M Prasetyo said on Monday.
He was responding to a statement Yudhoyono made on his official twitter account @SBYudhoyono on Sunday, claiming that recent media reports on the missing fact-finding team's report had been politicized. He also welcomed Yudhoyono's plan to make a public statement regarding the case and what measures his administration had taken to investigate the case.
Prasetyo, however, asserted that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) did not have a copy of the fact-finding team's report on Munir's death. His statement was in contrast to that of Democratic Party deputy chairman Didik Mukrianto, who earlier said copies of the investigation report had been handed to the AGO and the National Police after the original was submitted to then president Yudhoyono in 2005.
"[The government] only wants to seek the document's whereabouts and when it was submitted [to the AGO] because it's nowhere to be found," he said.
The Central Information Commission (KIP) issued a writ on Oct. 10 ordering the State Secretariat to release the investigation report compiled by a Yudhoyono-commissioned fact-finding team following Munir's death in September 2004.
