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Family of Padang ‘Torture’ Boys Go to National Police
Farouk Arnaz | January 12, 2012

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jchay
9:36am Jan 13, 2012

Go to National Police: hopeless!

@stewy, yes I hope international NGOs such as Amnesty International will take this case to global, because that could be the ONLY way to get SBY's attention or else he has to kiss early good-bye to his dream to be Secretary-General of the United Nations..

DrDez
8:14am Jan 13, 2012

I am with you Stewy. Too many abuses just now.. scares me

stewy
6:27am Jan 13, 2012

Get these [edit] so called police officers rounded up! Good to see the Padang chapter of the YLBHI taking this on, hopefully Amnesty International will step up and do likewise.


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The family of two boys who died in police custody reported the case to the National Police’s detectives office on Thursday.

Police maintain that the two teenage brothers committed suicide last month while in police detention in West Sumatra and not were not tortured to death as the family alleges.

“We have facts and evidence that Faisal and his elder brother Busri ... died of asphyxia because of torture, and not suicide,” said Abdul Kadir Wokanobun a rights activist accompanying the family.

Kadir, who directs advocacy and campaigns at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), said that the family was ready should there be a need for the bodies to be exhumed.

“We are willing [to allow exhumation], but on condition that it be conducted by an independent team that is not contaminated by conflicts of interest,” Kadir said.

The family and the rights activists brought with them several documents and photographs taken by an investigative team from the Padang chapter of the YLBHI, but did not have a copy of the autopsy reports, which they said the police never gave to them.

Kadir declined to speculate on the exact way the two brothers died but said that based on their findings “there are strong suspicions of torture.”

“The doctor in Padang said that they had died because of blows from a blunt object in the neck, not because of hanging themselves,” he said.

Didi Firdaus, an elder brother of the pair, hoped that police would investigate the case and punish and discharge from the force those found guilty.

“I met my younger brothers on Monday and they were still alive. They complained of headaches but on Wednesday, December 28, they died,” Didi said.

Faisal, aged 14, was arrested on Dec. 21 for stealing from a charity box at a mosque. Busri, aged 17, was arrested five days later for stealing a motorcycle. Neither had been proven guilty in a court of law.

Didi said that although the police returned the bodies, they were not immediately allowed to see them.

“They said that their bodies had to go through all sorts of processes first,” he said.