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LPSK Vows to Protect Assaulted ICW Activist
Nivell Rayda | July 27, 2010

Tama Satrya Langkun, an Indonesia Corruption Watch activist who was attacked and badly beaten, is now under the watch of witness protection with a security guard and a lawyer for when he attends police interviews. (Antara Photo/Ismar Patrizki) Tama Satrya Langkun, an Indonesia Corruption Watch activist who was attacked and badly beaten, is now under the watch of witness protection with a security guard and a lawyer for when he attends police interviews. (Antara Photo/Ismar Patrizki)
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peterR
9:29am Jul 27, 2010

Where is your follow-up Mr President? No good giving orders publicly to the police saying you want those guilty brought to justice and then forgetting all about it. Also your well publicized hospital visit and appropriate words of assurance and sympathy mean nothing if you do-not pursue justice for this brave young man.

Tama Satrya Langkun is obviously prepared to put his life on the line for his country, which is what can be fairly expected from the countries leader: somehow I doubt it to be fact though.

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Jakarta.  The nation’s witness protection agency has begun assigning security guards and legal assistance to antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun, who was brutally assaulted this month.

Tama, a researcher with Indonesia Corruption Watch, was ambushed by four unknown assailants on July 8, leaving him hospitalized with serious injuries.

ICW said Tama was the key researcher behind its report to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force that alleged several National Police generals held suspiciously large bank accounts.

Abdul Haris Semendawai, chairman of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK), said Tama’s request for protection was filed on July 13 and had been duly approved.

“We concluded last week that Tama was still under grave physical and legal threats,” he told the Jakarta Globe on Monday.

He said the LPSK would ensure Tama was shielded from possible criminal defamation charges in relation to the ICW report, as well as from future acts of intimidation.

“Tama requested that his protection be limited to a personal day-to-day escort and legal assistance,” Semendawai said, adding that the agency would also provide a lawyer to accompany Tama to police interviews.

“He won’t be placed in a safe house for the moment and will be allowed to continue working unhindered at ICW, although his social activities may be curtailed.”

Tama on Monday signed the agreement for protection at the LPSK office in Central Jakarta, where he was accompanied by advocates from the Jakarta chapter of the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH).

“From today onward, I’m officially under LPSK protection,” Tama told the Globe.

He has been interviewed by police three times since the attack, and provided them with the phone numbers of people who had made threatening calls as well as the license plate numbers of vehicles he believed had been tailing him prior to the attack.

Police say they have identified at least two of Tama’s attackers but have not yet arrested them. They added some of the license plate numbers were fake.

Last week, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said it would conduct its own investigation into the case, citing the police’s seeming reluctance to take any action.

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the LBH have also taken up similar inquiries.

Last week, LBH advocate Nurcholis said that hours before the assault, a Jakarta Police officer, identified only as an adjutant senior commissioner, had met with Tama at the ICW office to warn him he could be in danger.