Klender suspects to be charged with subversion<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The three men arrested in an East Jakarta
\napartment last week are allegedly affiliated with the outlawed
\nDemocratic People's Party (PRD) and will be charged with
\nsubversion, police said yesterday.<\/p>\n
City police chief Maj. Gen. Hamami Nata said the men were
\nactivists of Indonesian Students Solidarity for Democracy (SMID),
\nwhich is the student wing of the banned party.<\/p>\n
\"They are activists of a banned organization and are liable to
\nprosecution,\" he said. \"They will be charged with subversion.\"<\/p>\n
Under the Indonesian legal system, subversion is one of the
\nmost serious offenses and it carries a maximum penalty of death
\nif the suspect is found guilty.<\/p>\n
Police have identified the suspects only by their initials --
\nMY, 25, AR, 24, and NP, 28 -- after they were arrested in a
\nmilitary raid on the apartment in Klender on Friday.<\/p>\n
Hamami said their involvement in the PRD was made clear by the
\ndocuments that the authorities confiscated from them.<\/p>\n
\"Some of the documents contained information on the party
\nwhile others had articles on communism.\"<\/p>\n
The government banned the PRD last year and put its key
\nleaders in jail on subversion charges. Government officials say
\nthat the PRD follows communism.<\/p>\n
Hamami said a police investigation disproved the military's
\ninitial allegations that the three men were involved in a bomb-
\nmaking plot.<\/p>\n
He added that the police probe focused on their alleged
\ninvolvement in the PRD.<\/p>\n
\"The investigation does not touch on issues pertaining to
\nbombs or chemicals used in bomb-making.<\/p>\n
\"But, I can assure you that these men were involved in the
\nTanah Tinggi explosion (last January),\" Hamami said without
\nelaborating.<\/p>\n
An unfinished homemade bomb exploded on Jan. 18 in a cheap
\napartment in a Tanah Tinggi block, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
A man who rented the apartment, Agus Priyono, was arrested and
\nhas been detained at Jakarta Police Headquarters for his alleged
\ninvolvement in making bombs with the help of two other men who
\nare still at large.<\/p>\n
Emergency law<\/p>\n
Agus, who was believed to be a member of PRD, was charged with
\nviolating the 1951 Emergency Law No. 12 on the illegal
\npossession, production and use of explosives.<\/p>\n
City police spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang has said that it
\nwas not clear whether Agus and the three latest suspects knew
\neach other.<\/p>\n
\"But it's clear for us that all four of these suspects were
\ninvolved in the banned party.\"<\/p>\n
Aritonang said the three arrested in Klender had allegedly
\nviolated three different laws: the 1963 Law No. 11 on subversion,
\nthe 1969 Law No. 5 on political activity and Article 169 of the
\nCriminal Code on participation in an outlawed organization.<\/p>\n
He said the seized documents confirmed the authorities'
\nallegation that the three suspects were involved in
\nantigovernment or subversive activities.<\/p>\n
\"The three suspects sought to garner mass support to subvert
\nthe government,\" he said, adding that two of the three -- MY and
\nAr -- were students of universities but he refused to name which
\nones.<\/p>\n
When asked whether the seized documents contained names of
\n\"sponsors\", like political activists or businessmen, Aritonang
\nsmiled and said police had not gone that far with their
\ninvestigation.<\/p>\n
The military said the documents seized at Tanah Tinggi
\ncontained names of some PRD supporters, including journalists
\nfrom various media and high-profile businessmen like Surya Paloh
\nand Sofjan Wanandi. (cst)<\/p>",
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