AUT: INDONESIA now : student activist perspective (fwd)

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:28:29 -0300 (ADT)
From: Antoni Wysocki <au120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: mai-not@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: INDONESIA now : student activist perspective (fwd)


Hey mainots.

To complement recent postings from Janice and MichaelP re Indonesia I am
forwarding a couple of reports from participants on the ground in Jakarta.

---Antoni



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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:43:50 -0300 (ADT)
From: Penny Mc Call Howard <pmchowar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: INDONESIA today (a student activist perspective) (fwd)

A message from an indonesian student, recieved via the international
union of students. It explains their stance
on the military, and the fact that riots are being set up by the military
in order to frighten people away from the progressive people's democratic
movement in indonesia. Students have not been endorsing or participating
in these riots, but will be holding a large demo on wednesday the 20th
(according to an earlier message out of indonesia).

penny.

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Date: 18 May 98 00:00:00 GMT
From: Ingo Jaeger <INGOJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: san@xxxxxx
To: basin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, FIC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
    janimin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, N.Braumann@xxxxxxxx,
    nakal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, san@xxxxxx,
    soendoro.soepringgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, watchin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: INDONESIA today (a student activist perspective)

 Dear friends,

 luckily enough having a contact to a student activist in yogyakarta,
 i would like to forward his oppinion and appeal for help.

 hopefully this will help some of you to get a better understanding of
 the students position at the moment.

 till later

 ingo

   ## Forwarded Message follows ##
  ________________________________________________

 Hallo Ingo !

 Today we are very surprissed of what happenned in  Indonesia  on  the
 last day.It was so terrible that people went out to the street to rob
 and burn all of the store in Jakarta and Solo.

 The  military  claimed  that  the  riots  was connecting with student
 demonstration.But actually it wasnot true.

 Because until today The millitary always stops the student to go out
 from  campus. And it's irronic that the millitary use the gun to stop
 the student, but they let people rob and burn the store (I  have  the
 picture  of  this).  So  I think there's an invisible hand behind the
 riot. I heard an issue from Jakarta that for this  situation  Prabowo
 (son  in  law of president) was prommoted as Pangkopkamtip to control
 the situation.

 This position is like Soeharto in 1965. But general wiranto the chief
 commander of millitary rejected that.Many people  in  indonesia  hope
 wiranto  will  do  reformation,  for  the army (ABRI) has the biggest
 power in the pollitical  constallation  in  indonesia.  But  we  (our
 student  committe)  never  believe in the army, because the army will
 take advantage just like in 1966,when the student  movement  was  the
 mask of millitary. We donnot want to be leaded by the army.

 So I think this situation (riot) was made by millitary to legitimized
 the  army stopping the student protest, and in other side to prommote
 prabowo.

 What we can do now is just to  make  people  understand  that  people
 enemy  is  not  cina etnic but the army and the civil who save status
 quo.So robbing and burning the store isnot the way of reformation.

 I would like if you  will  spread  the  information  that  it  wasnot
 student  who  made  or  startted  the  riot  but  it  was  pollitical
 enginering by the army.

 Finally  I would like to thanks for any help, you and all of over sea
 student give.


 We shall overcome !

 M.




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