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Informasikan Situasi Lingkungan Anda
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CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA
Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 - Indonesia
Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337
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Ambon, August 14, 2002
THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS - Report No. 309
1. AGAIN VICTIMS OF LAND MINES - Two soldiers from the Armed-2
battalion tripped on a land mine, while on August 11 they were trying to
find Pieter Joseph (30), who was missing in the woods near Galala, east of
the city Ambon. They were seriously wounded. One of them had to have one of
his legs amputated. P.Joseph's corpse was found the following day: he, too,
had stepped on a land mine. Several days earlier a civilian from Lahanai was
seriously injured when he stepped on a land mine in the Karang Panjang area.
Another became victim of a land mine not far from the village of Soya. On
August 12 M.Tahitu (35) from Passo became victim of a land mine in the woods
between Nania and Negeri Lama; his left leg had to be severed. People are
wondering whether these mines might only recently have been placed, since
the accidents happened along not unfrequently trodden paths. All of these
land mines were homemade.
2. VICTIM IN THE NORTH MOLUCCAS - People in the North-Halmahera areas
of Tobelo and Galela still live in terror. When on August 8 Simon Laike (65)
from the village of Duma was tending to his coconut plantation, he was shot
dead by an unknown person.
3. DISCIPLINING THE MILITARY - In the wake of several cases of
insubordination of military servicemen, military chief commander Major
General Djoko Santoso has ordered sweeping by the military police on
weaponry also towards military servicemen: whether they can identify
themseleves as such and whether they carry only the weapons they are
supposed to.
4. LATEST INFO FOR DUTCH MOLUCCANS - Paulien Joel-Parera reports that
for Dutch Moluccans there can be made an exception on the general ban on
foreigners to enter Ambon, under the following conditions:
(1) Submitting request, stating purpose of visit, place to stay and
duration of stay, readiness to comply strictly with the civil emergency
regulations;
(2) Written declaration of the relatives in Ambon stating that they
guarantee responsibility;
(3) Photocopy passport and visum;
(4) 2 x Passport Photo in colour, 4x6 cm.
All of this to be sent to the relatives in Ambon, who will submit it at the
local civil emergency administration.
C.J.B�hm msc, Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina
