MALANG, Indonesia – The country on Sunday (December 8th) opened its first human rights museum, Omah Munir, dedicated to murdered activist Munir Said Thalib, local media reported.

The official opening was held on what would have been Munir's 48th birthday. He died mysteriously after being poisoned on a Garuda Indonesia flight to Amsterdam in 2004.

The museum will hold documents on human rights cases, including some on which Munir worked, according to Tempo.co.

"If South Africa is proud of Nelson Mandela, we should be proud of Munir," economist Faisal Basri said.

Munir's wife, Suciwati, said she hopes the new museum would bring about new scrutiny into his unsolved murder, as well as other cases Munir was working on, the Jakarta Globe reported.

Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, an off-duty Garuda pilot, was convicted for the murder, but Munir's supporters believe the plotters remain at large.