Indonesia: cracking down on democracy

An eyewitness account

Last week Indonesian military forces raided a conference organised by 
Indonesian NGO, INCREASE (Indonesian Centre for Reform and Social 
Emancipation) and arrested all the foreign participants as well as some key 
Indonesian democracy activists.

An Australian participant of the conference that was held in Indonesia will 
give an eyewitness account of the events that took place.

Speakers:

Graham Matthews: conference participant who was detained after 100 police 
broke up the conference.

Arief Budiman: Indonesian academic at Melbourne university

Plus solidarity greetings from Grahame McCulloch, General Secretary of 
National Tertiary Education Union.

When: Tuesday June 19, 7pm

Where: Student Union Building, Melbourne University

Call: 9639 8622 for further information.


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