Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:56:37 -0500 (CDT) From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu> Subject: AUT: INDONESIA now : student activist perspective (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:28:29 -0300 (ADT) From: Antoni Wysocki <au120-AT-chebucto.ns.ca> To: mai-not-AT-flora.org Cc: mai-not-AT-flora.org 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:43:50 -0300 (ADT) From: Penny Mc Call Howard <pmchowar-AT-is2.dal.ca> To: tjelowic-AT-is2.dal.ca, iscanada-AT-web.net, tthorne-AT-is2.dal.ca, gbak-AT-is2.dal.ca, criou-AT-is2.dal.ca, colea-AT-is2.dal.ca, annat-AT-is2.dal.ca, au120-AT-chebucto.ns.ca, sunscad-AT-nscad.ns.ca, hal-AT-oxfam.ca, nspirg-AT-is2.dal.ca 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. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 18 May 98 00:00:00 GMT From: Ingo Jaeger <INGOJ-AT-jumbo1-h.leine.de> Reply-To: san-AT-tao.ca To: basin-AT-faveve.uni-stuttgart.de, FIC-AT-OLN.comlink.apc.org, janimin-AT-stud.uni-hannover.de, N.Braumann-AT-tu-bs.de, nakal-AT-watchin.snafu.de, san-AT-tao.ca, soendoro.soepringgo-AT-stud.uni-hannover.de, watchin-AT-berlin.snafu.de 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. -- For MAI-not subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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