By Bernama,
Jakarta : Former Garuda Indonesia president director Indra Setiawan who was sentenced to one year in jail for complicity in human rights activist Munir’s murder left prison on Monday morning as his jail term had expired.
“Indra Setiawan left the National Police Headquarters’ detention centre at 2am on Monday,” Antara news agency quoted Indra’s lawyer, Antawirya, as saying.
Antawirya said Indra’s family had told him his client would be set free at 11 p.m. on Sunday but it was delayed until the morning.
Indra was arrested on April 14, 2007 as an accomplice in Munir’s murder together with Ruhainil Aini, a secretary of Garuda’s Airbus A330 pilots. Aini, however, was eventually exonerated and released.
Munir died on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004 2 after being poisoned, and former senior Garuda pilot Pollycarpus was recently sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the murder.