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JAKARTA, INDONESIA - A FORMER top Indonesian intelligence official suspected of involvement in the murder of a prominent human rights activist will be formally charged in court next week, officials said on Friday.
South Jakarta district court spokesman, Eddy Risdianto, said the panel of judges is set to try Muchdi Purwoprandjono, a former deputy chief of Indonesia's spy agency, on Aug. 21.
Earlier on Friday, Mr Bonaventura Daulat Nainggolan, a spokesman at the Attorney General's office, said the prosecutors had handed over the dossier for Purwoprandjono to the court on Thursday.
Prosecutors said early this month that the retired two-star general would be charged with the premeditated murder of Munir Thalib, which carries the maximum death penalty.
Munir, a vocal human rights activist, died of arsenic poisoning on board a Garuda Indonesia flight in September 2004, while on his way from Singapore to the Netherlands. -- REUTERS
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