National Police Chief General Sutanto said after a cabinet meeting that the new suspects were former officials from national airline Garuda Indonesia.

"They are officials from Garuda with initials IS and R," Sutanto told reporters at the Presidential Palace.

The initials match those of Garuda's ex-president director, Indra Setiawan, and corporate security vice president, Ramelgia Anwar.

Sutanto also said that the police were now continuing their investigation and would name more suspects in the coming days. "We are still building this case," he said.

Munir, co-founder of human rights organisations Imparsial and Kontras, was found dead on a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004.

Munir was a critic of the military, accusing it of rights violations in the troubled provinces of Aceh and Papua and of running a network involved in illegal activities.

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