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Bilik E-Mail Pelanggan : 27 Juni 2000
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From: "Daniel Levara"
Subject: Re: [Eskol-Net]- Artikel Lepas : Mencermati Usulan "Jakarta
Charter" Masuk Amandemen UUD 1945

Dear all in Christ,
Bahwa pemasukan Jakarta Charter kembali adalah jelas untuk mengislamkan
semua sendi- sendi kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara Tanpa adanya Jakarta
Charter, kita sudah bisa melihat bahwa orang Kristen telah menjadi warga
negara kelas 2 saat ini di Indonesia melauli alasan bahwa mereka mayoritas.
SEbagai contohnya yaitu bahwa di daerah yang mayoritas Kristen ternyata
pengangkatan guru agama juga tetap 1:10  padahal seharusnya proporsional.
Departemen Agama disinyalir sebagai Departemen Agama Islam, yang lainnya
hanya pelengkap, dan ini bisa dilihat dari pernyatan Gus Dir sendiri.
Adanya alasan bahwa Islam adalah mayoritas jelas sangat mengabaikan keadaan
realitas bahwa sebelum merdeka, masyarakat kita adalah majemuk. Bahwa
kemudian kantong-kantong Kristen (Maluku, NTT, Sulut, Dayak, Batak, Toraja
dan kemudian Papua) menyetujui bergabung dalam NKRI adalah dengan
persyaratan bahwa semua agama mendapat perlakuan yang sama.  Oleh karenanya
orang Kristen harus mewaspadai semua argumen yang palsu tersebut.
Piagam Jakarta akan menjadikan bahwa orang yang beragama Islam adalah
kelompok istimewa dengan sendirinya. Interpretasi dan nuansa lebih lanjut
dari pencantuman Pigam Jakarta jelas sangat akan berbeda dalam kehidupan
bernegara.
Saya menentang keras adanya pencatuman Piagam Jakarta. Dan apabila
dipaksakan, maka dengan sendirinya mendorong orang Kristen untuk tersisih
dari NKRI dan tawaran berikutnya adalah:  Orang Kristen akan berjalan
sendiri dengan pembentukan Negara Indonesia yang Pancasilais.  Hancurnya
kehidupan masyarakat Kristen di Maluku serta bergesernya keseimbangan
populasi kelompok beragama antara Kristen dan Islam secara sangat drastis
(akibat transmigrasi) seperti yang disinyalir belakangan ini, akan secara
psikologis menekan bargaining position orang Kristen. Keadaan ini sudah
terjadi di Maluku yaitu akibat adanya pendatang dan transmigrasi, maka
orang
Kristen sudah menjadi minoritas dan tekanan terhadap orang Kristen di semua
lini telah menjadi sangat kuat. Lihat juga kasus Maluku Utara dimana 95%
Camat yang ada semuanya beragama Islam begitu juga di kantor Pemda Tkt II.
Semua bupati yang ada juga beragama Islam begitu juga pegawai Pemda.
Konsekwensi ke arah ini sedang terjadi di Maluku dan Papua.
Shalom
JC Levara Ir, Dipl TE, MSc

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From: Agus P
Subject: FW: SOS from the Moluccas

Dear friends,
This is the latest news from Mollucas.  Please pray also for one of our
student names Selma who just lost her parents house last week.  We
desperately need international attention for this situation in Mollucas.

SOS CABLE SOS CABLE SOS CABLE SOS CABLE SOS CABLE SOS CABLE
We the community members of the Christian University in the Moluccas appeal
to the Human Rights Commissions both of Indonesia and of the United
Nations,
regarding the fate of the Moluccan people right now.
Since the 19th of January 1999, with the first outbreak of conflicts in the
Molucca Islands (presented as Moslem and Christian conflicts) death toll
has
reached over 2.000 people (according to government statistics). This
excluding the number wounded, maimed (also in thousands) and thousands of
houses and public facilities being destroyed. There has been grave
violations of human rights also, including rapes, kidnappings, tortures,
murder of women and children, all throughout the conflicts.
The conflicts are still continuing and are getting worse every day,
especially since the arrival of the Jihad warriors from other parts of
Indonesia, who came in thousands.
These last two weeks the condition is deteriorating even more, due to heavy
fighting using heavy armours, which destroy several Christian villages in
the North and South Moluccas, and many parts of the Ambon City, mainly
inhabited by the Christians. Thereby the number of displaced people is also
escalating.
The Christian University in the Moluccas, the oldest university in the
province also lost its campus yesterday, after an attack by the Jihad
warriors aided by the military personnel. Eyewitnesses speak of seeing a
military armoured car being driven to the campus vicinity and started
shooting at the buildings and the Jihad warriors followed with jugs filled
with petrol or kerosene which set fire to the buildings.
This is a great loss not only to the Christian community in the Moluccas
but
also to other faith communities since the students come from all faith
backgrounds.
People also collected on the campus area the remains of bullets, rockets
fit
to heavy machine guns usually used by the military forces. Also skeletons
of
hand grenades were found.
It looks like genocide right now, with the Moluccan Christians being the
main target.
We therefore plead with the Human Rights Commissions to take serious action
in ending violence and the human rights violation being committed now in
the
islands.
We especially plead for help in evacuating the people especially women and
children in the area.
We also urge the United Nations to send a peace keeping force to the
provinces.
We cannot depend on the Indonesian Military Forces anymore since they
appear
to be incompetent in handling the conflicts all through. Just two days ago
the compound of the Mobile Brigade in Tantui (Ambon) was attacked and
burned
down by the Jihad warriors and today a police compound in Ambon (Perigi
Lima) was also attacked. So how can we civilians withstand the aggressions?
Please save the people and the democratization process in Indonesia.
Ambon, June 24, 2000
Signed by
Rev. Dr. Margaretha Hendriks (Faculty Staff)
Rev. J. Seleky, M.Th.
Rev. Dr. I.W.J. Hendriks
Mr. Agustinus Rekawarin (Siwa Lima Foundation
Rev. E. Tahapary-Pattinama, M.Hum.
Rev. E. Tarumaselly, MA
Rev. V. Untailawan, M.Th.
Dr. M.J. Norimarna (Rector of the Christian University in the Moluccas)
Mr. F.P.B. Litaay, SH, MA
Ms. A. Litaay, MA
Rev. Dr. H.L. Sapulete
Rev. Dr. G.J. Damamain
Drs. A.N. Relmasira, M.Sc.
Ms. S.S. Lewier, S.Th.
Dra. T.A.E. Relmasira, MACE
Rev. Dr. H. Talaway
Rev. Dr. P. Tanamal
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