JAKARTA (Antara): Police have arrested two new suspects of the murder case of human rights activist Munir Thalib, who was allegedly killed on board of Garuda Indonesia plane flying Jakarta to Amsterdam in 2004.
The two are Indra Setiawan, the former president director of the airline and Rohainil Aini, secretary to the airline's chief pilot.
They were arrested by police investigators in two separate places on Saturday. Indra was arrested in Tebet, South Jakarta, and Rohainil in Curug, Tangerang City, Banten province.
The former Garuda Indonesia chief arrived at the National Police Headquarters at 4 a.m. and Rohainil at 4.50 a.m.
Muhammad Assegaf, a Garuda Indonesia lawyer, regretted the arrests, saying that the police should not have arrested them but sent them an invitation for questioning.
Munir died on board a Garuda airplane, GA 974, during a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam with a stop-over in Singapore, on September 7, 2004. He was apparently poisoned because a large quantity of arsenic was found in his stomach.
The Central Jakarta district court and the Jakarta high court handed down a 14-year jail term on Pollycarpus Haripriyanto, a pilot, who was accused of poisoning MUnir but the Supreme Court later acquitted him of the murder charges. (**)
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