

The Setiabudi 13 Case: A Brutal Mystery Still Waiting for Justice


A Crime Scene Buried in Bureaucracy November 23, 1981 — Jakarta, Indonesia. Two security guards walk past two sealed cardboard boxes near a ditch in the Setiabudi district. The smell gets them first. Then the horror. Inside: the dismembered body of a young man, cut into 13 pieces. Not dumped in haste. Not rage-slaughtered. Precisely dismantled, piece by piece, with an anatomical deliberateness that