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...Sept. 7, 2004, Indonesia's leading human-rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, boarded a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam to take up a scholarship at a Dutch university. But by the time the plane touched down at Schiphol, Munir was dead?poisoned, an autopsy revealed, by arsenic in his orange juice. Last week Indonesia's Supreme Court, declaring there was insufficient evidence, overturned the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, the only suspect charged in Munir's death. Rights groups worldwide slammed the acquittal, with Human Rights Watch calling it a "failure...
Smiling and eager to hit the beach, 79 Australian tourists streamed off a Garuda Indonesian Airways jet last week on the tropical island of Bali. Their joy turned to dismay when Indonesian authorities denied them entry because they lacked visas, which vacationing Australians are not normally required to present...
When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...first denied making, but which were recorded on Munir's cell phone. Pollycarpus then boarded the flight for its first leg to Singapore, and, say the authorities, swapped his business class seat with Munir's in economy; he took a 6 a.m. plane the next morning back to Jakarta. "Garuda doesn't have any reason to murder Munir," says commission member Rachland Nashidik, an activist and a friend of Munir's. "The question is: who has the power to use Garuda for their own benefit...
...Former Garuda CEO Indra Setiawan?who was removed last week with the rest of Garuda's board in a long-planned management change unrelated to the Munir case?says Pollycarpus was flying to Singapore to check on a Boeing 747 with a landing gear problem, and denies any skulduggery on the part of the airline. As someone who challenged the military, security agencies and big business, Munir had many enemies. Rachland says the commission will next question officials from the National Intelligence Agency. "Let's hope," he says, "the investigation doesn't stop with [Pollycarpus'] arrest...