A allegedly false report filed by Putri Candrawathi purportedly to save her embattled former police general husband has undeniably shaken Indonesia’s women’s rights movement, following her surprising role reversal from an alleged victim of sexual violence to a suspected accessory to premeditated murder.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The National Police have named former internal affairs chief Insp Gen Ferdy Sambo’s wife Putri Candrawathi as a suspect in the premeditated murder of her own aide-de-camp, Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.
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Indonesian human rights and environmental groups are calling for further investigation into the death of a local government official who had voiced opposition to a Canadian-owned gold mine on his island after police said he died of natural causes.
Helmud Hontong, 58, the deputy head of the Sangihe Islands, a regency made up of islets in North Sulawesi province, died aboard a Lion Air flight from Bali to Makassar on June 9 after reportedly vomiting blood. Police on Monday said an autopsy they had conducted showed Helmud died of complications from a chronic illness.
Beka Ulung Hapsara, a member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), said the central government in Jakarta should allow an impartial team to investigate the death.