Notes and the Lie of the Law

Policeman Edy Wuryanto, who conjured away the notes of a murdered journalist, was sentenced last Monday.

August 21, 2001

For five years the case of the murder of Udin has been kept under close wraps. The reporter of the Bernas daily in Yogyakarta whose full name was Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin was attacked by murderers in his own house on 13 August 1996. Three days later, he died. Nevertheless, the truth of the murder has never been revealed. One of those who is thought to know, Police Sergeant Major Edy Wuryanto, has just been tried. Even that, though, was only ov

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