Legal aid office attacked by graffiti vandals<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Director of the Jakarta branch of the Legal
\nAid Foundation Luhut Pangaribuan expressed concern yesterday at
\nthe obscene pictures and writing scrawled on two outside walls of
\nthe foundation's building at Jl. Diponegoro 74, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"The graffiti and the words here are not a form of vandalism
\ndone for fun by street kids. This was deliberate and clearly
\nplanned,\" Luhut said.<\/p>\n
The obscenities and graffiti of male sex organs can be seen by
\nanyone passing by the foundation building.<\/p>\n
Luhut said that the perpetrators apparently came to the
\nfoundation headquarters between the security guards' rounds at
\nmidnight and 3 a.m on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\"We suspect that there must have been more than three persons
\ninvolved, maybe as many as 10,\" Luhut said.<\/p>\n
Luhut refused to name the people he suspects, saying that is
\nthe task of the police.<\/p>\n
\"Whoever they are, they must be people with sick minds,\" Luhut
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Bambang Widjojanto, the Legal Aid Foundation's national
\noperations director, reported the case to the Menteng, Central
\nJakarta, Police Chief Maj. Anis Angkawijaya on Thursday
\nafternoon.<\/p>\n
Maj. Anis told The Jakarta Post yesterday that the police will
\nsummon the foundation's two security guards for questioning on
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
\"Actually I have been waiting for the two guards, but they
\nhave not shown up yet,\" Maj. Anis said.<\/p>\n
He said that due to the vulgarity and offensiveness of
\ngraffiti, the police have asked the foundation to repaint the
\nwall immediately.<\/p>\n
Luhut said yesterday that the foundation will ask its
\nemployees, clients and other supporters to help clean up the
\nwalls on Monday.<\/p>\n
\"The foundation will not hire any workers to repaint the
\nwalls,\" Luhut said.<\/p>\n
The defacing of the building is the last incident in a chain
\nof mysterious threats and damage to property aimed at the Legal
\nAid Foundation's branch offices in Jakarta; Palembang, South
\nSumatra, and Bandung, West Java, over the last 10 days.<\/p>\n
The first incident occurred in Palembang on Jan. 25, when
\nunidentified men loosened the tire bolts on a car, owned by a
\nlawyer from the local foundation office, while it was parked at
\nthe courthouse.<\/p>\n
Another incident occurred at the South Jakarta District Court
\nbuilding on Jl. Ampera Raya on Jan. 30. Unidentified men poured
\nacid over the hood of a car being used by the foundation lawyers
\nand slashed all of its tires.<\/p>\n
Another incident, involving the Bandung-based Nusantara Legal
\nAid organization, which is not affiliated to the foundation,
\nhappened in Bandung six days ago. Unidentified people broke the
\nwindow of a car owned by Effendi Saman, a lawyer of Bandung-based
\nNusantara Legal Aid.<\/p>\n
Effendi told reporters that his car stereo and other
\nbelongings were left untouched. (mas)<\/p>",
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