Kali aja ada yg tertarik dengan soal begini-begini. RAP
Salam! Perkembangan politik Indonesia makin sengit. Jenderal Wiranto akan dipecat dari jabatan Menko Polkam, dampak laporan KPP HAM. Ini merupakan lanjutan "Seri Mempreteli" Wiranto. Sebelumnya Wiranto sudah dicopot sebagai Pangab, dipensiunkan sebagai jenderal-- tak punya serdadu lagi. Itu teorinya. Membaca berita di bawah ini saya malah tertanya-tanya: 1. Benarkah Gus Dur PASTI memecat Wiranto? Berani? 2. Apakah Wiranto diam saja diperlakukan dan dipojokkan seperti sekarang? 3. Apakah Wiranto secara politik juga seperti "ban kempes", loyo setelah dipreteli terus? Sejauh mana kini pengaruh dan kekuatan politik tersisa dari Wiranto? 4. Sejauhmana TNI dan Polri setia kepada Gus Dur? 5. Setelah Wiranto, siapa lagi yang bakal menghebohkan episoda politik Indonesia pasca Soeharto? 6. Saya bisa menyusun beribu pertanyaan lagi. Itu saking peliknya politik RI!!! Tetap ada negeriku!!! salam, ramadhan pohan (penyimak pinggiran) ### WRAPUP-Indonesia's President Wahid to sack Wiranto By Chris McCall JAKARTA, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said on Monday he would sack powerful general Wiranto after an official inquiry linked the officer to mass violence last year in East Timor. Earlier in the day an Indonesian inquiry recommended that six generals, including former military chief Wiranto, face possible prosecution over the violence that erupted after East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia last August. The panel found evidence of mass killings and torture as well as attempts to tamper with evidence by removing bodies from graves in East Timor, which Indonesia invaded in 1975 and ruled in defiance of widespread local opposition until last year. "We have to uphold human rights in Indonesia, whatever the course," Wahid told Reuters Television while attending the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in the Swiss Alps. Asked if this meant he would dismiss Wiranto, Wahid said: "Oh yes, of course. I will ask him, to use a polite word, ask him to resign." Wiranto serves as Wahid's Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs. Asked when he would dismiss Wiranto, Wahid said: "When I return (home)." President Wahid left Indonesia last Friday on a two-week visit to 13 countries. Amid nervousness about the military's intentions towards the government, the president -- who dismissed fears of a coup before he left on his overseas trip -- signed a decree retiring Wiranto and three other military officers in his cabinet from the armed forces, with effect from March 31. WAHID SHOWS HIS CONFIDENCE The decision to sack Wiranto now seems to show Wahid's confidence that he has little to fear from a demoralised military desperately trying to repair its badly tarnished image in a country where it once ruled supreme. Wiranto, who surged through the ranks during the rule of ousted president Suharto, was once widely seen as an all-powerful general with his eye on the presidency. But his star waned after the violence in East Timor showed Indonesia's military unable or unwilling to stop blood-letting which claimed hundreds of lives and darkened Indonesia's name in the international community. Wahid's move against Wiranto is likely to be seen as a major political breakthrough for a president whose 100 or so days in power have been marred by mounting ethnic and religious violence and political feuding. Analysts point out that even if a disgruntled military did want to stage a coup -- something top generals have repeatedly denied they plan -- it would amount to little more than Pyrrhic victory taking over a country in economic ruin. Indonesia's commission of inquiry named Wiranto and five top officers responsible for East Timor around the time of its August vote for independence in a list of 33 names to be forwarded to Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman for investigation. The leaders of anti-independence militia, Joao da Silva Tavares and Eurico Guterres, and East Timor's last governor under Indonesian rule, Abilio Soares, were also named. Asked about Wiranto, inquiry chairman Albert Hasibuan told a news conference: "He knew what happened, but did not take effective measures to handle or prevent the violence." HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL In New York, a separate U.N. inquiry recommended the world body set up its own human rights tribunal into last September's bloodshed -- a move rejected by Jakarta. East Timor independence leader Jose Ramos-Horta said in Singapore that if Wiranto and those around him were brought to trial, indicted and sentenced to imprisonment, "the rest of the world will not demand a war crimes tribunal." "If the Indonesian authorities wish to spare Indonesia international embarrassment then they must live up to their own responsibilities in bringing these people to justice in Indonesia," the Nobel laureate told Reuters in an interview. The secretary of the Indonesian inquiry, Asmara Nababan, said he was confident there would be prosecutions. "Judging from the commitment of the president and the attorney-general I am confident there will be a follow-up, prosecution," he told reporters. The inquiry found evidence of mass killings and torture. The perpetrators were "the people who are operating in the field at that time, including the militias, military and police," said Djoko Sugianto, national human rights commission head. "The mass killings claimed the lives mostly of civilians. They were conducted in a systematic and cruel way. Many were committed at churches and police headquarters." WIRANTO DENIES SANCTIONING TIMOR VIOLENCE Wiranto has in the past denied sanctioning the violence in East Timor, which occurred while he was military chief. Wiranto and Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri flew back to Jakarta late on Monday from a weekend trip to West Sumatra without addressing waiting journalists. The other generals named included Adam Damiri, the former head of the Bali-based Udayana military command which oversaw East Timor under Indonesian rule, and Zacky Anwar Makarim, formerly in charge of military intelligence for East Timor. The other three were Tono Suratman and Noer Muis, former military commanders of East Timor, and Timbul Silaen, its former police chief. Hundreds died and most of the population displaced in a military-backed campaign of terror and destruction by pro-Jakarta gangs, after the August vote. The United Nations never recognised Indonesian sovereignty over the former Portuguese colony, where roughly a quarter of the population died during Jakarta's often brutal rule. 11:22 01-31-00 Subscribe/unsubscribe bincang@ ? Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with subject: (un)subscribe bincang@. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Menjadikan PERMIAS organisasi yang satu, berguna bagi anggotanya, perduli, tanggap dan independen... --------------------------------------------------------------------------
