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Team defends Hendropriyono appointment

Jakarta Post - August 15, 2014

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Jakarta – Deputy head of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Transition Team, Hasto Kristiyanto, has defended the appointment of former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Gen. (ret) A. M. Hendropriyono as an advisor to the team.

"We appreciate Mbak Suciwati's input, but it is not as if it is the president himself who is a human-rights abuser," Hasto said, referring to the widow of human-rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib, who died as a result of arsenic poisoning in 2004.

Suciwati has blasted Jokowi for his appointment of Hendropriyono saying that it could hinder Jokowi's efforts at human-rights protection once he is in office.

Hendropriyono is alleged to have played a role in the murder of Munir. Leaked documents provided by wikileaks said that Hendropriyono attended a series of meetings to hatch a plan to kill Munir, an outspoken human-rights campaigner.

Hasto had earlier said that Jokowi would need advice from Hendropriyono on several crucial issues including terrorism and radicalism.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/08/15/team-defends-hendropriyono-appointment.html.