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...hard-charging human-rights watchdog, had challenged just about every powerful institution in Indonesia: the military, intelligence agencies, and government bureaus and big businesses suspected of corrupt practices. In his six years with Kontras, Munir received numerous death threats. In 2003, someone threw a bomb at his house in Jakarta, although it caused no damage...
...Munir was leaving all of that behind, at least temporarily, when he arrived at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on the evening of Sept. 6. A Dutch university had awarded him a year-long scholarship to study for a master's in international law, and Munir was in a buoyant mood when he boarded Garuda Flight 974 to Amsterdam. He sent an SMS to colleague and friend Rachland Nashidik that read: "Please take care of the office and my wife and kids." On a stopover in Singapore, a fellow passenger, Tarmizi Hakim, recognized Munir and introduced himself. "There...
...weeks ago, the Netherlands Forensic Institute in Amsterdam concluded that Munir had been killed by a massive dose of arsenic. Its autopsy revealed more than 460 mg of undigested arsenic in Munir's stomach; a fatal dose, according to Dr. Mun'im Idris, a forensic expert at Jakarta's University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, is anything above 200 mg. Friends and family reject the idea that Munir might have committed suicide. According to Jakarta-based Tempo magazine, Munir sent an SMS to his wife Suciwati from Singapore's Changi Airport that read: "I really can't make this...
...after nearly four weeks in captivity. A Taliban splinter group that held the trio hostage said it let them go in return for a government promise to release 24 Taliban from jail. Closing In INDONESIA Police arrested four suspects in the Sept. 9 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 people. Officials say the arrests could lead them to the blast's alleged mastermind, Malaysian Azahari bin Husin. Burning Question MEXICO Riot police arrested more than 30 people in connection with the murder of two undercover policemen, who were beaten and set on fire...
Reasoning that caves would be the best places in which to find undisturbed fossils, team leaders Michael Morwood of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and R.P. Soejono from the Indonesian Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta decided to dig in Liang Bua, in the western part of the island. Limited excavations there had revealed evidence of human habitation...