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Suharti went crazy. A woman in the village of Selok Awar-awar, Pasirian, in the district of Lumajang, East Java province killed her husband, Supardi, because he was cheating. Suharti already noticed that there was something wrong for a long time. She knew there was another woman involved and he was always flirting with other women as well.
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Indonesia's controversial special forces, which are trained by Australia, have been accused of new human rights abuses in the troubled province of Papua. In a report by US-based Human Rights Watch, off-duty members of the elite Kopassus branch of the Indonesian army are said to have tortured and abused Papuans.
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At least three people are reported to have been killed after police from Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit stormed an isolated airstrip in Papua province. The airstrip was allegedly occupied by a group of unidentified gunmen. State news agency Antara quotes the province's police chief as saying the dead includes two suspected separatist rebels.
They were killed after negotiations to end an occupation of the airstrip failed.
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Police found Rev Frans Koagow, 64, and his wife Femy Kumendong, 73, at their home, dead, killed with machetes. The couple lived in Manado, capital of North Sulawesi province, where a majority of Sulawesi Island Christians live. Most local Christians are Protestant.
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Indonesian police have shot and injured 11 people at a pro-independence rally in Papua province. Four are in a critical condition at the Nabire Regional Public Hospital. The demonstrators were urging an election boycott of Thursday's parliamentary elections on Thursday and July's presidential election.
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The coordinator for the National Alliance for Free Religion and Belief (AKKBB), Anick Hamin Thohari, said that the delay of the final 'verdict' from the government about the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia was not the main reason for the FPI (Front Pembela Islam - Islamic Defenders Front) to stage the attack against a peaceful demonstrations two days ago. He said that the acts of violence were nothing more than anarchism by the FPI.
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A peaceful rally for religious tolerance was broken up earlier on Sunday afternoon by Islamic hard-liners from the radical FPI (Islamic Defender Front) when they beat other demonstrators with bamboo sticks and calling for the deaths of members of a Muslim sect they consider heretical, witnesses said.
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Three people were killed on Saturday in a fierce clash between two villages on the island of Seram in the Malulu archipelago in eastern Indonesia. At least 60 homes, several schools and places of worship were burned down in the riot as well. Hundreds of anti-riot police were deployed to the area to restore order. Brig. Gen. Guntur Ariyadi told that hundreds of panic-stricken residents had fled to temporary shelters.
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A group calling itself the Jamaah Al Mubalighin Communication Forum burned down a mosque belonging to the "deviant" Ahmadiyah sect in Parakan Salak village in Sukabumi regency, West Java, early Monday. Sukabumi Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Gunthor Ghafar told that the incident began when the forum members met Sunday for a Koran reading session at At-Taqwa Mosque, about 700 meters from Ahmadiyah's Al Furqon Mosque.
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With as reason that they wanted to fight against liquor, a resident has become a deadly victim. The incident happened when more than ten youths from the Kusumodilagan area, Joyosuran in Solo, central Java were drinking liquor on Monday evening. A group of members who see themselves as members of the local mosque attacked the youths. Beause the fight was unfair, the drinking youths ran away.
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Ten teenagers have died during a concert of the band Beside, which was held to celebrate the launch of their new album. The concert was held in the Asia Afrika Culture Center in Bandung, western Java on Saturday evening. Until Sunday morning, the ten casualties are still in the Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung for autopsy. Eight of the victims have been identified by the hospital, two remain unidentified for now.
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The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) said Friday it would switch the venue of the final match to Bandung after the Jakarta Police headquarters banned the match in the capital for security concerns. "The Jakarta Police have warned against having the final match in Jakarta, as the situation here is not conducive," PSSI secretary-general Noegraha Besoes said in a press conference.
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Again violence between members of the police and the army in Masohi, Maluku. Early this morning, a member of the 731th battalion attacked a member of the regional police in Central Maluku. This incident was reported to Major General Rashid Qurnain which was in Masohi at that time. He also reported that at one member of the army was killed and one was injured. According to the police, three of their members died in the clash.
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Again a fight between residents from two areas in the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, has been broken up by armed police. Residents from Tavanjuka and Nunu were fighting again. They brought big cutting blades, sticks and other materials to fight with.
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A tribal battle between the tribes of Me and Moni in the district of Nabire, which started yesterday morning, continued during Saturday despite the presence of a number of policemen from Nabire trying to stop the conflict. The two tribes shot arrows at each other while dozens of injured scattered the forest, as was reported by a news reporter via mobile phone.
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Testifying at the Truth Commission Indonesia-Timor, former Bishop Carlos Belo of Dili said that Indonesian forces and their militia allies had systematically burned the diocese's compound as well as other churches. Several clergy and an unknown number of others were killed in these fires. Bishop Belo, who headed the Archdiocese of Dili during the 1999 riots, was the main witness before the commission when they resumed public hearings in Jakarta.
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A small home-made bomb with nails exploded at a port on the island of Ambon yesterday, injuring at least 14 people. The explosion occurred just when passengers were disembarking from a boat that had just arrived in the port in the Maluku province, east of the island of Sulawesi. Most of the injured were street vendors and drivers according to local police spokesman Tommi Napitupulu.
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Two people including an Indonesian military officer were killed in a clash between security forces and separatists in the remote eastern province of Papua, a military official said on Saturday. The clash occurred on Friday after the officer and some residents tried to enter a separatist camp in Puncak Jaya regency, about 325 km southwest of Jayapura, the capital of Papua, Imam Santosa told Reuters. No other details were available.
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fter being denied government assistance, dozens of Papuans went on a rampage Friday, burning government offices and clashing with police officers. Police opened fire on the mob after they set fire to a post office and the Puncak Jaya regency council building in Mulia city at about 1 p.m. One person was killed and four others injured. The deceased has been identified as Lirius Tabuni.
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About 700 protesters attacked the office of the relief agency in Indonesia's tsunami-hit province of Aceh on Wednesday, an Indonesian officer said. The protesters, who had camped outside the office since Tuesday night, attacked the building in two waves of strikes, on Wednesday morning and in the afternoon, injuring one policeman, the officer told Xinhua in telephone from the province on condition of anonymity.
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The police have identified 41 suspects in riots linked to the Tuban regental elections and are focusing on seven people believed to have masterminded the unrest, National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said Monday. The naming of the suspects came after the questioning of 104 people believed to be involved in Saturday's vandalism, where the incumbent regent's residence and the office of the Tuban chapter of the General Election Commission were among the buildings burned down, Anton said.
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Hundreds of Muslim protesters have attacked the offices of the newly-published Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine. On Wednesday, about 300 activists from the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) rallied outside the building to demand that the local version of the magazine, which carries no nude photos, cease publication. They tore up copies of the magazine and threw stones at the building, shattering windows.
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There are reports that groups of Papuan students in Jakarta may be preparing to storm the Australian Embassy in a mass attempt to demand asylum, in an effort to draw attention to their demands for independence. The reports come as an Indonesian business association announces a boycott of Australian goods.
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The execution of three Christians convicted of masterminding the 2001 sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, has been postponed for "technical reasons", the Attorney General's Office said Saturday. The Attorney General's Office had earlier announced that the three would be executed at the end of March after their plea for presidential clemency was rejected.
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The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday it received report from Papua New Guinea indicating that three students have fled Papua province for political asylum in the neighbor. "There is an indication (of asylum seeking). The Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby is working to check the report," the ministry's spokesman Desra Percaya was quoted by the Detikcom news website as saying.
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Indonesia said it is deploying a fourth of its police force, or 47,800 officers, to guard every church in the country after warnings terrorists are planning attacks during the Christmas and New Year period. "The country has been put on top alert,'' National Police Spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said at a press briefing in the nation capital Jakarta today. "We are increasing security in every church to anticipate any terrorism act.''
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Twin bomb blasts that killed 22 people in a Christian town in eastern Indonesia bore the hallmarks of a regional militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the vice president and a senior police official said.
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Indonesia's president has ordered police to find those responsible for Saturday's fatal bombing of a market in Sulawesi, saying he may cut short his current visit to Vietnam is authorities can't handle the situation.
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Two bombs exploded in a crowded market in a Christian-dominated town in central Indonesia on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40, police said. The blasts came two days after unspecified security threats prompted the United States to close its diplomatic offices.
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An attack killing five paramilitary policemen last week in eastern Indonesia have raised fears that Muslim-Christian violence may resume in the Moluccas Islands. Since 1999-2002, violent clashes have killed 5,000 people.
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Hundreds of pro-independence demonstrators clashed with police in Indonesia's Papua province on Tuesday after two activists went on trial for flying a separatist flag, local media reported. The clashes erupted outside a court in the provincial capital, Jayapura, about 3,500 km northeast of Jakarta, after the two appeared in court on charges of subversion in connection to the incident last year.
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Muslim-dominated Indonesia on Monday ordered more security at potential flashpoints after renewed attacks on Christian churches sparked fears of a repeat of deadly Christmas Eve bombings four years ago. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told police chiefs to be on alert for possible terrorist attacks around the country after two attacks on churches in Central Sulawesi province late Sunday left three people seriously injured.
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Muslim militants in Indonesia's capital vandalized a cafe in an area popular with foreigners on Saturday because it was serving beer during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, police and one of the militants said. Around 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) ordered customers at the Star Deli in South Jakarta to leave, before smashing the building's windows and doors, said Alawi Usman, a spokesman for the group.
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A bomb has exploded in front of the Indonesian embassy in Paris before dawn today, injuring about 10 people lightly, French radio station Europe 1 reports. "It was caused by a package bomb placed just in front of the embassy," the radio's reporter on the scene said.
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Government prosecutors on Thursday demanded a 10-year imprisonment for an Indonesian army general charged with human rights abuses for the military's alleged role in the massacre of more than 30 Muslim protesters in 1984. Chief prosecutor Dharmono told Indonesia's ad-hoc human rights court in Jakarta that Maj.Gen. Sriyanto Muntrasan had been proven guilty of committing human rights violations in the massacre which occurred on September 12, 1984, in North Jakarta's Tanjung Priok slum neighbourhood.
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The South Sulawesi Police charged nine policemen on Monday with beating students during an assault on the Indonesian Muslim University (UMI) over the weekend. One of those charged was officer First Insp. Erwanto, the head of the psychology unit of the Panakukang police precinct. The eight others were low-ranking police officers, mostly from the Makassar Timur Police station. If convicted the nine policeman could be sentenced to ten years imprisonment, chief of the provincial police Insp. Gen. Jusuf Manggabarani said on Monday.
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A top police figure on Indonesia's Sulawesi island is being replaced after a violent police raid on a university protest against the arrest of a militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, officials said Sunday. National Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar told reporters that South Sulawesi provincial police chief Inspector General Yusuf Manggabarani was being recalled on orders from President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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An explosion rocked the Indonesian city of Medan in North Sumatra province late on Monday evening, but there was no immediate report of casualties, police said. "There was a blast in Patumbak, near the Amplas (bus) terminal but there was no report of casualties," Second Sergeant PM Simanjuntak of the Medan city police headquarters said.
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A soldier and a policeman were wounded on Thursday in shoot-outs between troops and police in the town of Palopo, Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, officials and residents said. The clash erupted briefly near the Luwu Police station at around 9:30 a.m., and ended after Army commanders arrived at the scene. However, officials could not say who had started firing first, as the investigation was still underway.
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Indonesian police have arrested 50 people in the eastern-most province of Papua after they took part in a ceremony to raise a separatist flag. Police say the men were arrested when they raised the flag of the West Melanesia state at two separate locations. Today marks the sixth anniversary of the declaration of the state of West Melanesia by separatist leader, Michael Kareth.
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Thousands of local residents set ablaze a district courthouse on Flores Island on Saturday, shortly after a judge declared guilty a local Catholic leader in a defamation case. The angry mob also set fire to several buildings belonging to the Larantuka Prosecutor's Office. No fatalities were reported in the incident. The incident began when thousands of residents of Larantuka, the capital of the predominantly Catholic East Flores regency, attended a trial against Father Frans Amanuen, a local charismatic priest.
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At least 12 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and separatist fighters in Indonesia's troubled Papua province. Eight separatists were killed and several injured after troops raided a camp in the Wamena region on Wednesday morning, an army officer told El-Shinta radio. "We launched the raid at 5am and confiscated weapons from them... It is suspected that they had been planning to carry out attacks on a regency office and local military headquarters," Colonel Agus Mulyadi said.
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A loud explosion alarmed shoppers here on Wednesday, but caused no damage, police said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the blast, which occurred in a covered ditch in front of a gold shop in Makassar.
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Indonesia's military (TNI) showed signs this week of tightening its hold on Aceh and Papua, two resource-rich regions at either ends of the sprawling archipelago that have voiced separatist sentiments and seen much violence in recent years. On Thursday, military chief General Endriartono Sutarto said he would immediately dispatch four fresh battalions, or 2,000 troops, to Papua. The move followed violent anti-government protests in Papua that have killed five in the past two weeks.
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A free rock music concert meant to promote peace and social harmony ended abruptly with rioting and police warning shots, reports said Sunday. At least six people were reportedly injured. Veteran rocker Iwan Fals, whose regime baiting songs were banned by former dictator Suharto, tried to calm the 100,000-strong crowd with a nationalist anthem as people began throwing stones and bottles in the sports stadium where the show was being staged.
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The Indonesian government on Wednesday decided to shelve plans to split easternmost Papua province into three after three days of street clashes involving supporters and opponents of the move left three people dead. ``Based on political and administrative considerations, the division of Papua province ... has been put off and (Papua) will be kept in the status quo,'' top security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a press conference.
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More than 20 people have reportedly been injured in fighting between rival groups in Indonesia's Papua province on the third day of violence. It was sparked by Jakarta's decision to split the region into three. One tribal activist was killed on Sunday in the violence which erupted in the town of Timika after the new province of Central Irian Jaya, created from Papua, was inaugurated.
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A small explosion smashed windows and damaged a wall at Indonesia's Parliament building on Monday, but there were no casualties, officials said. It was unclear whether the explosion was from a bomb, said Madali, a security guard at the building who goes by a single name. He said police were at the scene.
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Police on Indonesia's Bali island are investigating an explosion at a trucking company contracted to US soft drink giant Coca-Cola, the district police chief said today. One truck was destroyed but nobody was hurt in the blast late Monday at the yard of the company close to the provincial capital, Denpasar, said Bali district police chief IB Astika. Astika said the truck company received a bomb threat via telephone last Friday, but declined to speculate on the cause of the explosion.
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A mob has attacked and ransacked a police post in Indonesia. The incident happened in Palimanan, in West Java, a day after a policeman allegedly shot dead a bus driver following a traffic accident. The company's bus drivers went on strike today to protest the shooting.
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Gunmen believed to be separatist rebels shot dead two soldiers during an attempt to steal weapons from a military post in Indonesia's Papua province. At least 10 people believed to be Free Papua Movement (OPM) rebels staged the attack in the highland town of Wamena and stole about 15 rifles.
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Ten members of a radical Islamic group were arrested Monday in Indonesia's capital after they tried to force their way into a Sizzler restaurant to harass foreigners and protest the war in Iraq. The Islamic Youth Movement was "trying to stop taxis loaded with suspected foreigners" near the restaurant, said a police official, 2nd Lt. Samsudin. "We intervened and took them for questioning."
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A small explosion Friday in an industrial neighborhood in eastern Jakarta injured one passer-by, police said. Police Lt. Ino said the blast occurred near a stream next to a small manufacturing plant. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, but the extent of his injuries was not immediately known.
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A blast that rocked police headquarters in Jakarta early on Monday was triggered by an explosive device, police said, but there was no immediate report of casualties. Police spokesman Edward Aritonang told reporters the blast took place outside an auditorium in the headquarters complex that is frequently used for public events like weddings.
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Indonesian police removed a militant Muslim cleric suspected of regional terror links from his hospital bed in central Java on Monday as his supporters and security forces clashed outside. A police spokesman said Abu Bakar Bashir would be flown straight to Jakarta, where he faces questioning over several extremist acts in Indonesia, although not the October 12 bomb blasts on the resort island of Bali.
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Police used tear gas and water cannon Wednesday to quell a student demonstration that sought the disbanding of the former ruling party whose chairman was convicted of corruption. About 300 protesters, some with Molotov cocktails, fought with security forces outside a Golkar Party office in the capital, Jakarta. The fighting spread to a nearby university campus.
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Indonesian police arrested seven members of a Muslim group yesterday over recent vigilante-style raids on nightspots in Jakarta. Officers arrested the men at the headquarters of the Islamic Defenders Front organisation, a Jakarta police spokesman, Colonel Bahrul Alam, said. They are being questioned over attacks early on Friday on two late-night pool centres and a discotheque, he said.
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In what could be an industry first, Indonesian travel and tourism associations are to mount a joint campaign to oppose an attack on Iraq. Citing the small but steady recovery taking place in one of the country's leading foreign-exchange earning industries, the Indonesian Tourism Council and the Indonesian Tourism Promotion Board (ITPB) are rallying the support of several other industry associations in drafting a letter to the US embassy in Jakarta.
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Tension was still evident in Malaka, Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, on Sunday evening following a brawl between two groups of residents in the early hours on Sunday, a report said. At least one person was severely injured in the incident, which involved stone-pelting and Molotov cocktail throwing, Metro TV reported.
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At least 40 protesters were detained at Jakarta Police headquarters following clashes that broke out separately in Megaria and Jl. Cendana in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, reports said. Dozens of people were also injured in both incidents, most of them were rushed to Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital and St. Carolus Hospital in Central Jakarta, El Shinta radio reported.
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It was the beginning of the end for former President Soeharto when on May 12, 1998 four students of Trisakti University were shot dead during a peaceful rally demanding political reform. Eight days after the tragedy Soeharto resigned. The nation saw itself standing at the threshold of democracy. Hopes ran high. That was four years ago. Now analysts and families of victims fear government ignorance will drag the Trisakti tragedy into oblivion, and with it the country's reform movement.
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Around 2,000 mobs armed with sticks and gasoline bombs torched hotels and vandalized suspected brothels in a popular mountain resort town of Puncak in Greater Jakarta area, police said. The riots late Saturday in Cisarua regency of Puncak resort area, about 60 kilometers south of Jakarta, were apparently sparked by local anger at prostitution in the area, state news agency Antara reported.
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A group of 15 city residents, organized by the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC), were rushed to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta after being attacked at the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas Ham) office by a different group of counter demonstrators, callingthemselves the native Jakartan Betawi Rempug Forum (FBR), a report said.
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Two civilians were killed and 15 others were injured during a fierce clash between members of Infantry Battalion 501 of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) and police officers in Madiun, East Java, on Saturday night. Acting spokesperson for the East Java Police, Comr. Penny Handayani, confirmed the clash on Sunday, adding that five police stations, two buildings, including the police hospital in Madiun, and several vehicles were also destroyed.
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Nine people were killed, dozens of others were injured and 40 houses were set ablaze early on Wednesday in a rampage involving residents of two hamlets near the village of Padang Sappa, Bupon district, Luwu regency, some 430 kilometers north of here. A police officer said that one of the victims was a boy of under ten years old. "He was hacked to death," the officer at the Luwu Police precinct said.
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Long-simmering tensions between indigenous Dayaks and immigrant Madurese suddenly exploded in the town of Sampit, Central Kalimantan, in the middle of February 2001. Within days, isolated killings perpetrated by both sides had developed into a one-sided massacre of Madurese by enraged Dayaks. In the following weeks the killings spread to other areas in the province and by early April almost the entire Madurese population had fled the province. The massacre of about 500 – and possibly many more - Madurese by Dayaks and the flight of virtually the entire Madurese community closely resembled two similar events in the Sambas district in the northern part of West Kalimantan in 1996-7 and in 1999 and highlighted the danger of violence spreading to West and East Kalimantan.
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One person was killed and four others injured in a fierce clash between people claiming to be President Abdurrahman Wahid's supporters and security officers in tense Pasuruan on Wednesday, while another group of people ransacked and torched a Muhammadiyah senior high school in neighboring Situbondo. However, in general the situation remained under control in East Java, the stronghold of Abdurrahman, contrary to people's belief that on Tuesday more people would take to the streets to protest the House of Representative's (DPR) plenary session in Jakarta.
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As police called for a top security alert throughout the country amid the heightened tension between members of the political elite, riots hit several towns of East Java province on Monday when thousands of self-proclaimed supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid rampaged at public facilities, schools and offices of opposing political parties.
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On February 20, a West Kalimantan panglima, a kind of witch doctor arrived in the Dayak village of Luwuk Bunter, 24 kilometers north of Sampit. The panglima, named Edi, cast a spell on some oil and gave it to selected warriors to drink.
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From his grief-gouged eyes to the way he presses his hands together to stop them from shaking, it's clear that if Syamsudin Noor makes it through the next few weeks, he is still a dead man inside. Syamsudin has pushed through a crowd of fellow refugees to tell his story, describing in patient detail how a visitation of almost unimaginable brutality destroyed his remote village of Sangai in Indonesia's Kalimantan province. "All my children, my grandchildren were killed," he mourns. "They cut off their heads and then cut them up and took them away to eat. There were a lot of Madurese in Sangai. Now 95% of us are dead."
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Blood. countless gallons of blood soaked deep into the clay of a soccer field. There have been two heavy thunderstorms in the four days since 118 children, women and men—Madurese refugees huddled together and promised safe passage—were systematically butchered on the high-school playing field in Parenggean, a logging town deep in central Kalimantan. Those rains weren't cleansing enough: in the still of a tropical afternoon, the sweet stink of putrescence hangs in the air like the unquiet spirits of those murdered here. Halerin, a stocky sawmill hand in his thirties, was at the field that night. His account:
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Tension rose in the riot-torn town of Sampit again on Tuesday following the disappearance of six guns and 80 sets of military uniforms despite the security forces effort to restore order in the area, an official said. The official, who requested anonymity, said that the guns and uniforms had probably been stolen by locals.
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A new bout of ethnic violence erupted on Wednesday in East Kotawaringin regency, Central Kalimantan, with reports that another eight people have been killed. Latest reports coming out of the small town of Sampit, about 214 kilometers west of the provincial capital Palangka Raya, bely police reports that the situation had calmed and was under control since the violence initially exploded on Sunday between migrant Madurese settlers and the local Dayak tribe.
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More than 75 people have been slaughtered -- some beheaded and their heads carried around -- in savage ethnic bloodshed on Indonesia's portion of Borneo island, local officials and media said on Thursday. National police chief Suroyo Bimantoro told reporters the police and army had each sent in an extra battalion and the navy was being called in to handle a flood of thousands of refugees.
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Thousands of Sampit's citizens, the capital of East Kotawaringin Regency in Central Kalimantan, left Palangkaraya on Tuesday (20/2) in waves. Palangkaraya is located around 220 kilometers east of Sampit. Trucks laden with belongings of Sampit people and hundreds of private cars were constantly heading towards Palangkaraya.
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The anger of President Abdurrahman Wahid's supporters boiled over on Wednesday when they torched Golkar Party offices in Surabaya, Mojokerto and Malang, all in East Java. In protest at the censuring of the President by the House of Representatives (DPR) over the Bulog and Brunei financial scandals, tens of thousands of the President's supporters continued to vent their anger publicly.
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The angry supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid on Wednesday torched the headquarters of the Golkar party in Surabaya, the capital of East Java province, making it the eighth Golkar office being burned down by Wahid's fanatic loyalists who staged rally since late lastweek protesting the planned impeachment against the erratic leader.
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Not withstanding the government's efforts to ease tensions with the U.S. government, dozens of men clad in green military-style uniforms stormed into a number of international hotels in Surakarta, Central Java, on Sunday demanding that American guests leave the country. Hotel staff were reportedly warned that checks would be held at the hotels for American guests and, if found, they would be asked to leave the country within 48 hours.
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The public services section of the U.S. embassy here will be closed for the rest of the week after "credible information" was received of a possible attack, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. The embassy was closed anyway on Wednesday in observance of the Ascension Day of Prophet Muhammad. It has been decided that the public services section will not re-open Thursday and Friday, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker was quoted by AFPas saying in Washington.
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Minister of Defense Mohammad Mahfud M.D. claimed on Sunday that Indonesian security authority had arrested a U.S. citizen who was allegedly involved in recent riots in West Papua or Irian Jaya province. The U.S. citizen, identified as Aaron Ward Maness, was detained in Jakarta on Saturday.
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The government will grant a three month extension to the civil emergency status in Maluku based on Law No. 23 (1959). Continuing violence in the troubled province was given as the reason for the extension. Governor of Maluku, Saleh Latuconsina as the authority of civil emergency and its four members, consisting of the, the Pattimura Military Commander-in-Chief, Brig. Gen. I Made Yasa, the Maluku Police Chief, Brig. Gen. Firman Gani, and the Maluku High Prosecutor’s Office, prepared working agenda for the next three months. Following a meeting, the civil emergency expert staff coordinator, Dra. Mrs. Paula B. Renyaan, told TEMPO Interaktif that the new agenda would be submitted to President Abdurrahman Wahid for consideration. When asked about an evaluation of the first civil emergency period, Paula said it was not necessary.
During every civil emergency meeting, Paula added, members always conduct an evaluation. Consequently, the authorities will request the president to reduce the numbers of Indonesian Military personnel and increase the Mobil Brigade troops. The troop exchange request is expected to improve civil emergency implementation that has been effective since June 27. Meanwhile, Renyaan said that demands from both warring groups to interrogate and try the masterminds behind the violence would be handled by the Deputy Governor of Maluku for Social Welfare. “We will investigation those people accused by both groups,” he said.
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A weekend rampage by pro-independence supporters in Indonesia's troubled Irian Jaya province following clashes with police left 30 people dead, mostly migrant workers from other parts of the country, according to Irian Jaya acting governor Musiran Darmosuwito. Musiran told RCTI private television network on Sunday evening that out of the 30 killed, 24 were migrant workers. Besides, 48 others were injured in the rampage.
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Acts of terror returned to the capital on Tuesday as four bomb threats, which later turned out to be hoaxes, were telephoned to two separate offices in South Jakarta. The first of two bomb threats hit the office of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Jl. Rasuna Said on Monday morning, causing panic among the employees. The first threat was received about 8:45 a.m. by the building management,while the second came about 9:25 a.m., said Adi, an employee at the ministry.
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At least three United Nations humanitarian workers were killed in an apparent retaliatory attack in Atambua, East Nusa Tenggara, on Wednesday following the murder of ex-militia leader Olivio Moruk just days after he was named a suspect in last year's mayhem in East Timor. The UN office in Jakarta said in a statement: "So far four UN humanitarian workers are unaccounted for and feared dead."
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An East Timorese fisherman on Friday paddles by graves of those killed by anti-independence militiamen in last year's violence in Maubara, west of Dili, East Timor List includes three generals, but omits Wiranto.
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Chairman of the Golkar Party Akbar Tandjung suspected on Monday that the burning of the party's flags perpetrated by student protesters was premeditated so as to put pressure on the party."There are strong indications...that (certain) people took the initiative on July 27 in burning Golkar party flags," he said in front of party cadres in Semarang, Central Java.
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President Abdurrahman Wahid and Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Adm. Widodo A.S. have pledged to take stern measures against the Irianese for declaring independence, House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung said on Sunday. Speaking during a visit to Pangkalpinang, South Sumatra, Akbar said the House would support every means sought by the government to maintain the state's unity, Antara reported.
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Hundreds of angry Kebon Manggis and Pal Meriam residents of Matraman, East Jakarta, strung arrows, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at each other, and exchanged stick blows on Thursday over a sudden stabbing of a man who incidentally got off a bus in their area.
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Angered at being repeatedly blocked by tight security, about 800 anti-Soeharto protesters attacked police with rocks and Molotov cocktails on Thursday, burning a traffic police post near the Central Jakarta residence of the former president. The attack by members of Jarkot (City Network) sparked retaliatory measures by about 200 officers, who ran after the protesters and fired several rounds of tear gas. Several students were badly beaten and enraged officers also attempted to grab the cameras of photographers from The Jakarta Post and Pos Kota daily, roughly confiscating their film.
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Business activities at Harco Glodok electronics center in West Jakarta stated to show signs of life on Tuesday amid fears of further rioting in the predominantly ethnic-Chinese business district. Several stores opened their doors to customers under the watchful eyes of dozens of uniformed police officers, while others whose stores were burned or vandalized by mobs during rioting on Saturday were still busy cleaning up the mess.
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Top police officers blamed each other on Sunday for the botched raid on sellers of illegal Video Compact Discs (VCDs) in Glodok on Saturday which triggered widespread rioting in the West Jakarta commercial district. "The National Police Headquarters did not inform the city police about the planned VCD raid. Our operational and control forces were taken by surprise, when they heard about the raid," Jakarta Police chief Maj. Gen. Nurfaizi said after a coordination meeting with the capital's five precinct chiefs at city police headquarters.
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Rioting broke out in the capital's predominantly ethnic- Chinese business district of Glodok on Saturday morning after police raided street vendors selling pirated video compact discs (VCDs). At least four shops in the Harco Glodok electronic goods shopping center and several others along with two automobile showrooms on nearby Jl. Gajah Mada and Jl. Hayam Wuruk were set alight and vandalized. Looting was also reported from some of the shops affected.
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Police fired tear gas Friday at hundreds of student protesters who had gathered outside former President Suharto's home demanding that he be put on trial for corruption. More than 100 police officers with shields had been holding the protesters about 300 yards (meters) from the house for hours when they suddenly fired tear gas canisters and charged the demonstrators.
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