TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesian rights group The Commission for Mising Persons and Victims of Violence has published its preliminary findings on the savage attack on member of the Indonesia Corruption Watch earlier this month.

Speaking at his office today (21/7) Vice Coordinator of the commission Haris Azhar said "It is suspected that there is a link between the police wealth report and the subsequent events, which include break in attempt and stake out by unidentified persons."

Haris said, mostly based on ICW staff accounts, that the series of incidents began on June 17 when the group filed report on dubious giant assets owned by a senior police officer identified as BG with the Presidential Taskforce on Judiciary Reform.

It was more than 10 days before the report published by Tempo under the "Police Officers Fat Accounts" headline.

The group then invited to speak about the dubious police wealth and the fat accounts report by Tempo in a TV show on June 30th, two days after Tempo published the report.

The next day at around 4 am two men spotted of scaling up the gates of Indonesia Corruption Watch’s office in Kalibata, South Jakarta and tried to derange Tama’s motorcycle and broke into the office through the front door.

Later in the day a delegate from the group, which include Tama, went to meet chairmen of the Corruption Eradication Commission to seek explanation on the progress of the investigation on BG.

Two days later, on July 3rd, Tama received a call from a man claiming to be a reporter with Indonesia’s largest paper, Kompas, named Roni, asking Tama to cooperate with him in corruption investigations. Tama invited the caller to meet him at the watchdog office which was turned down by the caller who keep asking where Tama was going to head.

On July 5th, three days before the attack Tama received another call from the same person while he was working at his office. He invited the caller again to come to his office after the caller said he was around the area. The caller again rejected the offer.

In suspicion Tama asked a fellow staff, Donal Fariz, to check out the area around the office who then found a Toyota Innova with plate number B 1979 PFR parked near the office with four men sitting inside the car.

In the afternoon Tama, Donal, and another fellow staff, Ade, left their office on motorcycles and spotted two unfamiliar motorcycles parked before a kiosk near their office. Minutes later when they halted before a shopping mall in Kalibata, several men on the two motorcycle they spotted near their office rode by while one of them pointed a finger at Tama saying "That’s him in the black shirt".

Tama was beaten and slashed with sharp object on July 8th in South Jakarta around 4 am and then treated for his injuries.

ANTON SEPTIAN