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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin )〕 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. ==Life and journalism== Udin was born on 18 February 1963, a date considered unlucky in the Javanese calendar as it fell on a ''kliwon'' Monday. His father was Wagiman Dzuchoti, a mosque watchman, and his mother was Mujiah; Udin had five siblings. As a young man, Udin had wanted to join the Indonesian military, but was unable to due to his family's lack of political connections. Instead, he worked various manual labour jobs, including stonemason. In the ten years prior to his death, Udin was a freelance reporter for ''Bernas'', a daily newspaper of Yogyakarta, Java,〔 owned by the Kompas Gramedia Group.〔 He was known for writing about crime and local politics, and would also take pictures to illustrate his articles. Aside from his reporting, Udin and his wife Marsiyem owned a small store which developed pictures and sold stationary; Marsiyem would usually manage the store. In 1996, Udin began a series of articles reporting on corruption in the regency of Bantul, a suburb of Yogyakarta, focusing particularly on the activities of Bantul's regent Colonel Sri Roso Sudarmo. In one report, Udin stated that Sudarmo had paid a bribe of Rp. 1 billion (US$111,000) to President Suharto's Dharmais Foundation to secure his reappointment that year.〔 Udin also reported that Sudarmo had demanded that village heads guarantee a "200 per cent" victory for Golkar (President Suharto's party) in the upcoming legislative elections.〔 Following the publication of these articles, Udin began to complain of what he considered a campaign of official harassment. Some district officials had reportedly spoken to him about his writings,〔 and others had threatened him with a libel action. As a result of this perceived harassment, Udin had filed multiple complaints with the Legal Aid Institute () in Yogyakarta.〔 Udin had also been offered bribes to cease his reporting and received threats of violence.〔 When his wife asked him about the threats, he responded, "What I write is the facts. If I have to die, I will accept it."〔 The night of his murder, two men came to the ''Bernas'' office looking for him, but a secretary sent them away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Udin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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