Django Goes to Jail
The police named Muchdi Purwoprandjono the latest suspect in the Munir murder case. Meanwhile, evidence for the case against him is being prepared, namely records of his telephone calls with Pollycarpus, an incriminating letter from the intelligence agency, as well as the testimony of his former subordinate. After two nights in the custody of the Crime Investigation Unit at National Police Headquarters, Muchdi was moved to the Kelapa Dua Mobile Brigade detention center in Depok on Saturday last week. Muchdi, a senior military officer who once held the position of deputy for support operations at the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), has denied all the charges against him.
June 24, 2008
The sun had just set when Muchdi Purwoprandjono bid farewell to his legal advisors on Thursday last week. He hugged the lawyers one by one. The sound of a flute playing softly could be heard inside the Dapur Sunda Restaurant in South Jakarta, where they had met for about three hours.
“God be with you,” M. Luthfi Hakim, one of the 14 lawyers present at the meeting, told Muchdi. Another lawyer, Wirawan Adnan, offered some calming words: “Be
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