Murder of Udin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indonesian journalist
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Place of Birth: Bantul, Indonesia
About Murder of Udin
- Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin (18 February 1963 – 16 August 1996), best known by his pen name Udin, was an Indonesian journalist who was murdered in 1996.
- A reporter at the Yogyakarta, Java, daily newspaper Bernas, he published a series of articles on corruption in the Bantul Regency in the months before his death.
- On 13 August, he was attacked at his house by two unidentified assailants using a metal rod and taken to the hospital.
- He died three days later without regaining consciousness.His murder became a national cause célèbre.
- Several independent inquiries concluded that local government officials had been involved.
- However, the Bantul police early on discounted a political motive.
- Instead, they arrested a local driver named Dwi Sumaji for the murder, alleging a motive of jealousy.
- Sumaji was later acquitted after the prosecution withdrew its case owing to a lack of evidence.
- The police in turn were successfully sued for their mishandling of the case and deliberate destruction of evidence.
- The murder has never been solved, and is expected to be unprosecutable after 2014 due to Indonesia's 18-year statute of limitations on murder.
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