REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The wife of the deceased human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, Suciwati, said the murder case of her husband should be solved. She asked legal authorities officers to reveal the case against her husband.

According to Suciwati, she has been struggling for the past 13 years to meet the president, national police chief, public officials. The president has given his word to solve the case. "It was a broken promise," she said. 

Moreover, the reports from Facts Finding Team (TPF) of Munir case were still unpublished to the public.

Suciwati said she is afraid other good people will also be assasinate if the legal authorities agencies are run by officers who are unable to reveal the truth. "We have the right to clean the agencies from such people," she said in a discussion titled "Munir, Democracy and Protection to the Human Rights Defenders" in Jakarta on Tuesday (September 9).

She said the cases happened to Novel Baswedan and Salim Kancil will reoccur if the public do not care. 

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Meanwhile, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) senior researcher Mochtar Pabottingi said Munir assasination in 2004 was a heinous crime. He urged TPF Munir official reports to be published. "This will be a long-term struggle, so do not be apathetic to the country," he said.

Baswedan, a 40-year-old retired police officer, had joined the anti-graft agency in 2007 and since then has been frequently terrorized and attacked.

A fatal attack against him took place on the morning of April 11, 2017, when he was heading home after performing Fajr, or the Dawn prayer, at a mosque nearby when two motorcyclists hurled acid on his face that injured his eyes, particularly the left eye.

Meanwhile, antimining activist Salim Kancil (52) was beaten to death by a group of people in Selok Awar-Awar subdistrict, Pasirian district, East Java in 2015.   

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