Pollycarpus receives 20-year jail term

JAKARTA (Antara): The Supreme Court handed down Friday a 20-year jail term to former pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto in a case review of the murder of noted rights activist Munir Said Thalib.

Supreme Court spokesman Nurhadi read a copy of the ruling, which said that a panel of justices had found Pollcarpus guilty of the premeditated murder of Munir as well as faking an assignment letter.

Pollycarpus was an off-duty pilot aboard a Garuda Indonesia flight on Sept. 7, 2004, on which Munir died en route to Amsterdam.

Earlier in 2006, a Supreme Court panel review foundPollycarpus only guilty of faking his assignment letter.

Separately at the Central Jakarta District Court, prosecutors recommended one year and one-and-a-half-year jail terms for former Garuda president director Indra Setiawan and secretary to Garuda chief pilot Rohainil Aini respectively for assisting Pollycarpus in carrying out the murder.