EMERGENCY ACTION: 76 PRD activists shot or beaten; over 70 in hospital in Jakarta. ASIET is calling an emergency actions in: Canberra: 12.30 p.m. Monday July 5, Indonesia Embassy We appeal for you to attend and to contact other people to attend. This bloody violence from Aceh to West Papua to East Timor and back to Jakarta itself must stop! Australian military ties with Jakarta must end! * end all military violence in Indonesia and East Timor! * end all Australian military ties with Indonesia! * expel Indonesian military attaches from Australia! * withdraw Australian military attaches from Indonesia! *********** ASIET News Updates - July 2, 1999 ================================== * Eyewitness report on PRD demonstration * Indonesia police fire on protest, three shot * PRD activists shot and wounded by riot police * Provisional list of those injured on July 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Eyewitness report on PRD demonstration ====================================== ASIET - July 1, 1999 [The following is an eyewitness report by Jill Hickson and Sam King, two ASIET members who are currently in Jakarta and were at the demonstration.] A rally by the People's Democratic Party (PRD) that mobilised 2000 people in Jakarta was attacked by police and military. The protesters were beaten and shot, injuring more than 100, two are in critical condition. The peaceful street rally was joined by many urban poor as it weaved through Jakarta, stopping at the University of Indonesia and the PDI office, before marching to the KPU electoral commission office. At the KPU the PRD called for the disqualification of GOLKAR (Indonesia's ruling party) for election rigging including ballot tampering, money politics and intimidation. They also demanded the repeal of the dual function of the military in social and political life, that allows the armed forces to continue its domination of Indonesian politics. At the KPU the demonstration came face to face with 50 police (a section armoured) bearing rifles, hand guns, bamboo sticks and tear gas. The rally continued outside for more than an hour with speeches from Andy Arief, Faisal Reza, Hendri Kuok and other PRD leaders. Negotiations by PRD KPU member Hendri Kuok to allow the rally entrance to the building and make their demands proved fruitless with KPU officials only offering 50 people entrance. The leadership put this proposal to the rally and it was unanimously rejected. The rally refused to be separated and decided to enter the KPU to stage a sit-in, saying the existence of the KPU itself is the result of the struggle of the Indonesian people for democracy, therefore they should have the right to enter. When the rally as a whole moved to enter the building, the police immediately opened fire upon the crowd using plastic bullets at point blank range; troops severely bashed with sticks and boot anybody they could get near. The protesters ran as soon as the shooting started with a minority returning and fighting back intermittently for a short time with stones and glass bottles. Police were then successful in forcing the protesters down the street by firing indiscriminately at those who remained. Hundreds of Brimob and Mobile military personnel loaded onto the street from eight trucks parked in the side streets blocking protesters escape. Protesters were routinely bashed after being captured and indiscriminately attacked while running away. One PRD member, Dhyta Caturani standing in the front line was immediately pulled behind the police line, there she was shot in the back and brutally beaten while lying on the ground, sustaining severe injuries to the face and head from the boots of the police. She was soon hospitalised, as one of the 36 protesters who were admitted to 4 Jakarta hospitals. More than 100 sustained minor injuries from police sticks, rickesheing bullets or being beaten while trying to escape. Dhyta was operated on at 8pm and remains in a weak condition but is expected to survive. Another PRD member Carles Ratna Panji Setiawan remains in critical condition after being shot in the stomach. His spleen, damaged by the bullet was removed by operation hours after the violence. At least seven people had plastic bullets enter their bodies, the majority shot in the back as they ran. One of the injured had a bullet pass completely through his body and experienced heavy bleeding from the mouth. As yet there have been no reports of fatalities although two PRD members who were among those injured were taken to a military hospital. Access to them has been denied and their condition is not known. Fifty people are reportedly in custody after being arrested and taken to a police station in south Jakarta. One of those injured badly in the head has developed amnesia. One hundred and sixty people are unaccounted for and their whereabouts is still unknown. [PRD sources in Jakarta have told ASIET that Dhyta was operated upon at 8pm, July 1 (Thursday). She is in a critical condition but is expected to survive. They also said that more than 75 had been wounded or injured and that many are still missing - James Balowski.] Indonesia police fire on protest, three shot ============================================ Reuters - July 1, 1999 Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta -- At least three people were wounded on Thursday when Indonesian police fired on protesters demanding that the ruling Golkar party be disqualified from last month's historic parliamentary election, witnesses said. The protest organisers put the number shot at five and said one was in a critical condition. Police began firing as protesters from the left-wing People's Democratic Party (PRD) tried to break through a cordon outside the main offices of the electoral commission in central Jakarta. It was the first serious political violence in the Indonesian capital since the June 7 poll, which went smoothly without the mass bloodshed that many had feared. Hospital sources said 23 people were admitted with injuries, two with bullet wounds. A witness at one hospital said he had seen a third victim with a bullet wound. Most had been beaten. But a top PRD official told reporters five had been shot, giving their names. "A total of five PRD members suffered shooting injuries. One is in critical condition," Faisol Riza told reporters. The local police commander said police fired into the air using a combination of blanks and rubber bullets. But a Reuters reporter saw one policeman shooting into the crowd and one man lying motionless with a gunshot wound to the chest. The chief of central Jakarta police, Lt Col Iman Haryatna, told reporters the incident began when crowds threw stones. "One of the crowd was waving a stick entwined with barbed wire," he said. But PRD officials said police had shot directly into the crowd without warning. "The police started to hit the front line of the demonstrators and, of course, everyone fought back," said Gandi Setiayadi, the PRD's West Java general secretary. "Then, without warning of any kind, they started shooting at the demonstrators. There were no vertical shots." The protesters had gathered to demand the disqualification of Golkar, once the political vehicle of ousted former president Suharto. They chanted "Revolution! Revolution!" and sang national songs as they waved banners saying 'Disqualify Golkar'. "They represent the old regime, the Suharto regime," one activist said. Police kept a heavy guard outside the General Election Commission offices after the protesters dispersed. Later the head of a Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence compared the incident with two involving security forces last year, in which students were killed. "The incident indicates that repressive action has strengthened again. There are many unsolved cases in the past, such as the shooting of Trisakti and the November shooting. I hope this will not be one of them," commission head Munir said. He was referring in part to last year's May 12 killings at Jakarta's Trisakti University. "An apology from the national police is not enough." Several PRD members were abducted while Suharto was in power and some are still missing. Its leader, Budiman Sudjatmiko, was jailed in 1996 for subversion and is still in Jakarta's Cipinang jail. He turned down a pardon offered by President B.J. Habibie, Suharto's successor, because his conviction would remain on record. Golkar is in second place in the vote count from the June 7 poll. Although the election was more than three weeks ago, less than 60 percent of the total vote has been counted. The PRD contested the election, but looks unlikely to gain any seats. Golkar won all of the stage-managed elections held during Suharto's 32-year presidency. June's vote was the first since Suharto was forced to resign amid mass violence in May last year. It was Indonesia's first democratic election in 44 years. PRD activists shot and wounded by riot police ============================================= ASIET - July 1, 1999 [The following is a summary of four reports by Detikcom compiled and translated by ASIET on the shooting of as many as 14 People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists during a demonstration in front of the National Election Committee (KPU) building in central Jakarta on the afternoon of July 1 - James Balowski.] The PRD action involving several thousand -- which began at 3pm on July 1 -- was demonstrating against election fraud by the ruling Golkar party and intended to enter the KPU building on Jalan Iman Bonjol in Central Jakarta. Despite being forbidden to enter by security forces, the PRD demonstrators continued to try to get into the KPU building. Hundreds of anti-riot police (Brimob) were mobilised to contain them and by 3.30pm, tensions were such that a confrontation could no longer be avoided. PRD demonstrations were seen throwing bottles of mineral water at troops and taunting them. Troops finally took action trying to break through the PRD ranks but the demonstrations were not easily discouraged. A clash broke out and without warning, shots were fired with troops then attacking and chasing after those demonstrators who tried to escape. Four wounded PRD activists were seen sprawled in front of the KPU building. The head of the Jakarta Police, Lieutenant Iman Haryatna, told reporters that they had found bows and arrows, hydrochloric acid and barbed wire at the location of the incident. "This is the evidence we found. And the press should not write in a biased way [about it]", said Imam. Iman also said that during the clash four of his troops were wounded although he did not give their names or say explicitly what their injuries were. As of 5.30pm, fourteen people were being given intensive treatment at the Corolus hospital, thirteen of which are PRD members, ten are suffering gun shot wounds. One of them is Dhyta Caturani [spelt Dita in the Detikcom reports - JB]. Dhyta, a student of the Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Central Java, was not just shot in the lower body but was also beaten with rifle butts. As a result she suffered broken teeth and her forehead was fractured. Dhyta's condition is extremely critical and her breathing irregular. Provisional list of those injured on July 1 =========================================== 1. Bayu Rahman (Boyolali). Being treated at Rasuna Said Hospital. Shot, being operated on 2. Yeyet (West Jakarta). Being treated at Rasuna Said Hospital. Kicked and stomped 3. Iwan (19 years), PRD branch Klaten, Jateng. Being treated at Rasuna Said Hospital. Beaten with rifle butt 4. Priwil. Being treated at Rasuna Said Hospital 5. Bayu (19 years), PRD Branch Boyolali, Jateng. Being treated at the Agung Hospital. Shot in left leg 6. M. Nur. Being treated at Tebet Hospital. Legs hit with gas grenade shrapnel 7. Iwan (Klaten). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital 8. Dhyta Caturani (International Department, KPP-PRD). Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in back, skull fractured, several teeth knocked out, face injured, eyes bleeding, unconscious, operated July 1, condition critical 9. Surya (KPK-Kramat). Being treated at Tebet Hospital. Shot 12. Panji, PRD Branch North Jakarta. Being treated at Rasuna Said Hospital. Shot in the stomach, operated on and spleen removed 13. Naning (KPP-PRD). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Bullet shrapnel in left leg 14. Iwan (Klaten). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Broken leg, bruises 15. Hubert (Bandung). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Shot in leg 16. Oliver (Mampang). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Broken leg 17. Imansyah (19 years), PRD Branch East Jakarta. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Unconscious from blow to head 18. Rustyaningsih (Klaten). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. severe head WOUNDS 19. Syalendra (Central JakartA). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Shot in the arm 20. Ari (Jogya-Sleman). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Beaten 21. Rani. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Beaten, including internal injuries 22. Yayan (Pekalongan). Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Beaten 23. Uzen. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital 24. Ubed. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital 25. Nuri. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital 26. Olis Memori (21 years), Being treated at Carolus Hospital, injuries from beatings 27. Feri Susanto. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 28. Ronny (19 years), PRD Branch Surabaya. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. blows to the head from rifle butts 29. Sugeng Priyanto. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 30. Detri. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 31. Irin Winoto (37 years), PRD Branch Semarang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Injuries to face and head 32. Dimas Khairulimah (PRD Branch Depok).x Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in the left arm 33. Indah (21 years), PRD Branch West Jakarta. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Beaten by five police and forced to crawl in front of commander 34. Edi Rianto (12 years), PRD Branch West Jakarta. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Blows to head and stomach from rifle butts 35. Ellim Falez (PRD Branch Bekasi). Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in right leg 36. Timbul (Palembang). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 37. Toni (Depok). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 38. Supranta (West Jakarta) Being treated at Carolus Hospital 39. Tio (South Jakarta) Being treated at Carolus Hospital 40. Jefri (East Jakarta). Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Kicked and stomped on head 41. Prian (Palembang). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 42. Boy (West Jakarta) Being treated at Carolus Hospital 43. Olis (East Jakarta). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 44. Budi Enanto (Solo). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 45. Egi Priyanto (PRD Branch Depok). Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Blows to head from rifle butts 46. Boy (Tangerang). Being treated at Carolus Hospital 47. Subendra. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Shot 48. Kuku. Being treated at the RSCM Hospital. Broken leg 49. Toto Leste. Shot and wounded 50. Yohanes Saptowo Budeherianto (33 years). PRD Branch Solo Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in chest 51. Angung. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 52. Nur Suntoro (21 years). PRD South Jakarta. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in back 53. Yohannes. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 54. Roni Agustinus. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 55. Ferry Susanto, PRD Branch Lampung. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Stomped on and kicked, head injuries 56. Andrian Budi Santoso (21 years). Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Affected by tear gas 57. Elim Pals. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. kicked in the head 58. Maryadi (21 years). PRD Branch Depok. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. blows from rifle butts to several parts of the body 59. Rusmanto Yudi (18 years). PRD Branch West Cengkareng. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 60. Supriyanto (23 years). PRD Branch West Jakarta. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. blows to the chest and head 61. Aten (19 years). PRD Branch Palembang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. stomped on the chest 62. Ariadi. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. stomped on the neck and body 63. Iwan Gunawan (33 years). Security from the Indonesian People's Party (PARI). Being treated at the Carolus Hospital. Hit by a bottle 64. Moy (23 years). PRD Branch Tengerang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. blows to the head by rifle butts 65. Rudi (21 years). PRD Branch West Jakarta. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. blows to the head, unconscious 67. Ardian (21 years). KPKP PRD Palembang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Shot in back, operated on and spleen removed 68. Wiwin, PRD Branch Sumedang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital. Blows from rifle butt to head 69. Timbul (21 years). PRD Branch Palembang. Being treated at Carolus Hospital 70. Arianto (19 years). PRD Branch Yogyakarta. Suffered rifle butt blows 71. Firmansyah (19 years). PRD Branch South Jakarta. Suffered rifle butt blows 72. Jarot (22 years). PRD Branch Semarang. Beaten with cane 73. Aan (20 years). Beaten on the head by cane 74. Sugianto (26 years). KPW PRD Jakarta Chairperson. Stomach stomped upon 75. Haryanto (40 years). PRD Branch Solo. Left arm broken 76. Aries Jefry (27 years). PRD Branch East Jakarta. Beaten by rifle butts Provisional list of those not yet located ----------------------------------------- PRD Kemayoran Branch 1. Avent 2. Mickey 3. Yures 4. Arifin 5. Gunawan PRD Kramat Pulo Branch 1. Johan 2. Budi 3. Surya (Shot while running away) 4. Subandra Alias Ucok PRD Menteng Branch 1. Rontek PRD Tanah Abang Branch 1. Udin 2. Damar 3. Inul PRD Cikini Branch 1. Abi 2. Kris 3. Didu 4. Banung 5. Nope 6. Simon PRD Mardani Branch 1. Iman (wounded) PRD Duren Sawit Branch 1. Irfan 2. Dandy 3. Holbin PRD Kebon Jahe 1. Abel 2. Manja PRD East Cengkareng 1. Patrik 2. Dalang PRD Pesing 1. Kasdiono PRD Kalideres 1. Ahmadi PRD Tambora 1. Ipo 2. Apong 3. Iyul 4. Empe 5. Black, 6. Iday 7. Gendon 8. Ina PRD Jombang 1. Faisal PRD Surabaya 1. Ali United Indonesian Democratic Party (PUDI) members -------------------------------------------------- 1. Franki 2. Untung [Source: People's Democratic Party, July 1, Jakarta. Translated by Max Lane, ASIET National Coordinator.] ********************************************************** ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR (ASIET) P.O. BOX 458, BROADWAY NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA. Telephone: 61-(0)2-96901230 Fax: 61-(0)2-96901381 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.peg.apc.org/~asiet Free all kidnap victims of the military! No more military in politics! Bring to justice all New Order violators of human rights! 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