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...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...
...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...
...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 was no indication he was ill," recalls Hakim, who is a heart surgeon. "He didn't complain about anything...
...hope it isn't playing up again." (Munir suffered from ulcers.) Hakim says that on the flight out of Singapore, Munir was convinced he had food poisoning. His family wonders how the poison could have been administered. "He was with his family all day on his departure day," says Rachland. Munir had a hot chocolate at the Jakarta airport, but his wife took the last few sips and didn't fall ill. When the family collected his personal effects from Dutch authorities, they found that he had not changed or spent any money, suggesting he didn't eat or drink...
...founded Imparsial, a human-rights monitoring group. His highest profile campaign of late was lobbying against a bill for an expanded intelligence agency. Munir's fellow activists wonder if he was involved in some new project that ultimately proved too dangerous. As a habit, Munir kept things to himself, Rachland says, especially when the matter was dangerous. Even in death, Munir hasn't escaped his enemies. On Nov. 20, someone mailed his wife a decapitated chicken along with a note reading: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect the TNI [an acronym for the Indonesian armed forces] to the death of Munir...
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