Indra was charged with falsifying documents to help a pilot get on board an activist's flight to kill him[EPA]

The state Antara news agency said Indra Setiawan was released from police custody on Monday, although police could not be immediately reached for independent confirmation.
 
Munir Said Thalib, the high-profile activist, was poisoned with arsenic by a Garuda Indonesia pilot accused of links to Indonesia's powerful intelligence agency, BIN, on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam in 2004.
 
Indra was detained on April 14 last year and a court sentenced him in February this year to one year in prison minus time already served.

He was charged with falsifying documents that allowed the Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budi Priyanto, to travel on Munir's flight.

The pilot is serving a 20-year prison sentence for murdering the activist.

Munir's case has drawn widespread international attention and is seen as a test of how far the Indonesian government has reformed since the 1998 end of former president Suharto's government.

Munir provided legal counsel for victims of officially sanctioned violence during Suharto's 32-year rule.

Human rights groups have long accused BIN of involvement in the killing, which it has denied.

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