{"id":40812,"date":"2021-02-15T22:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=162784"},"modified":"2021-02-15T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:29:03","slug":"family-of-papuan-pastor-killed-by-tni-agrees-to-autopsy-with-conditions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/15\/family-of-papuan-pastor-killed-by-tni-agrees-to-autopsy-with-conditions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Papuan pastor killed by TNI agrees to autopsy, with conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Rev Yeremia Zanambani … alleged to have been shot dead by the Indonesian military in Hitadiap village on September 19. Image: Suara Papua<\/div>\n
\n

By Devina Halim in Jakarta<\/em><\/p>\n

The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was killed in Intan Jaya, Papua, on September 19 last year has agreed to an autopsy being conducted with certain conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201c[First] that the autopsy be done by an independent medical team, which has been agreed to by the victim\u2019s family,\u201d said a member of the family\u2019s team of lawyers, Yohanis Mambrasar, in his explanation.<\/p>\n

The other condition is that the autopsy be done fairly and transparently and be observed by the victim\u2019s family, the victim\u2019s lawyer and witnesses, as well as independent organisations.<\/p>\n

The independent organisations referred to include the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), the Papua Coalition for Law Enforcement and Human Rights, Amnesty International Indonesia, the Intan Jaya regency Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) and the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI).<\/p>\n

Finally, the family is asking that the autopsy be done in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya.<\/p>\n

Mambrasar said that a letter by the family agreeing to the autopsy was personally handed over to investigators and accepted by the head of the Intan Jaya district police criminal investigation unit in Nabire, on February 12.<\/p>\n

Mambrasar added that the letter was signed by Zanambani\u2019s widow, Mariam Zoani, along with the deceased\u2019s two children, Yedida Zanambani and Rode Zanambani.<\/p>\n

\u2018investigators must fulfill family request\u2019
<\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019re pushing the investigators to do the autopsy properly, fairly and transparently. The investigators must fulfill the family\u2019s request,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mambrasar also hopes that the case will be able to proceed to trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing this the legal process can be pushed on to the next criminal investigation stage and be followed up with a criminal prosecution and hearing in a human rights court, as per the victim\u2019s family\u2019s request,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Previously, the family had refused to allow an autopsy to be conducted for cultural reasons. Local people believe that a body which has already been buried should not be removed from the grave.<\/p>\n

Moreover, if a body is exhumed, according to local community beliefs, it will result in calamity for the dead person\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn autopsy of our father\u2019s body very much conflicts with our culture. If an autopsy is done something bad will happened to us, and this of course will further add to our burden,\u201d said Rode Zanambani in a written statement on November 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

Testimonies sufficient<\/strong>
In addition to this, the family believes that the testimonies of witnesses, including local people, the testimonies of experts, preliminary and material evidence is sufficient to solve the case.<\/p>\n

As has been reported, there are suspicions of the involvement of security personnel in the killing as revealed in reports by both the Intan Jaya Joint Fact Finding Team (TGPF) and Komnas HAM.<\/p>\n

The TGPF, which was formed by the government, revealed the involvement of security personnel in Zanambani\u2019s shooting, although it also raised the possibility that the killing was committed by a third party.<\/p>\n

According to Komnas HAM report meanwhile, the perpetrator who tortured and murdered Zanambani and thereby committed an extrajudicial killing is suspected to be a senior officer with the Hitadipa sub-district military command (Koramil).<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong>
Although the government sanctioned TGPF only said that it found indications of the involvement of security personnel in Zanambani\u2019s murder, the Komnas HAM investigation explicitly named Zanambani\u2019s murderer as being Hitadipa sub-district military commander Chief Sergeant Alpius Hasim Madi. Komnas HAM said that Zanambani was killed while being interrogated on the whereabouts of an Indonesian military assault rifle seized two days earlier during an exchange of fire with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB).<\/p>\n

Translated by James Balowski for IndoLeft News. The original title of the article was \u201cKeluarga Setuju Jenazah Pendeta Yeremia Diotopsi dengan Sejumlah Syarat\u201d<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Print<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

This post was originally published on Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rev Yeremia Zanambani \u2026 alleged to have been shot dead by the Indonesian military in Hitadiap village on September 19. Image: Suara Papua By Devina Halim in Jakarta\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,8313,5,6,7,8314,10,527,8315,4,12,13,14,19,209,299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40813,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40812\/revisions\/40813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}