REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) would set up an investigative team to probe into the recent shooting of three Indonesian migrant workers by Malaysian police, according to Komnas HAM chairman Ifdhal Kasim. "If the House of Representatives (DPR) asks the rights body to investigate the death of the three Indonesian migrant workers who were shot in Malaysia, we will do that," he said on Friday.

Ifdhal expressed his intention to include in the team activists from the National Commission for Women (Komnas Perempuan) and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras). He affirmed that since Komnas HAM`s operations covered Indonesia, it would investigate the case in Indonesia by collecting information from relevant parties such as those who received the victims` bodies when they arrived in Indonesia and the victims` relatives.

"If the police refuse to provide the results of the autopsy, Komnas HAM will ask information from other relevant parties," he remarked.

He added that, if possible, Komnas HAM would request the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain information from doctors in the Malaysian hospital where the autopsy on the victims` bodies was performed. Herman (34 years), Abdul Kadir Jaelani (25 years) and Mad Noor (28 years) were shot dead by Malaysian police in Negeri Sembilan on suspicion that the three were planning to commit a robbery.

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