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        "id": 1884155,
        "msgid": "megawati-on-the-kudatuli-tragedy-i-have-never-forgotten-1785153157",
        "date": "2026-07-27 17:29:21",
        "title": "Megawati on the Kudatuli Tragedy: I Have Never Forgotten!",
        "author": "",
        "source": "VIVA",
        "tags": "berita",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "PDI Perjuangan chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri has declared she will never forget the 27 July 1996 tragedy, ahead of the inauguration of a monument commemorating the event. Speaking in Jakarta, she urged the public to remember unnamed heroes and called on the military and police to always defend the people. She warned that the violent incident, which resulted in deaths and disappearances, must never be repeated.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta, VIVA \u2013 Chairwoman of the PDIP Central Executive Board,\nMegawati Soekarnoputri, has affirmed that she has never forgotten the\nKudatuli tragedy (the 27 July Riot), the bloody incident of 27 July\n1996.<\/p>\n<p>According to records from the National Commission on Human Rights\n(Komnas HAM), the incident left 5 people dead, 149 injured and 23\nmissing.<\/p>\n<p>Megawati made the remarks ahead of the inauguration of the Kudatuli\nMonument in the grounds of the PDIP Central Executive Board office in\nCentral Jakarta on Monday, 27 July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe date of 27 July 1996 \u2014 I have never been able to forget it,\u201d\nsaid Megawati.<\/p>\n<p>On that occasion, Megawati invited the public to visit the fighters\nburied at the Kalibata Heroes\u2019 Cemetery. She said many fighters were\nburied without names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry going to the Heroes\u2019 Cemetery \u2014 there are countless unnamed\ngravestones scattered there. What does that mean? They fought with\nsincerity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth President of Indonesia then touched on today\u2019s younger\ngeneration. According to her, what young people experience now is the\nresult of the struggle of the nation\u2019s fighters in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd after independence, up until now \u2014 next month we will celebrate\n17 August 2026. Do you not realise that you can be like this because of\nwhat? The blood of the fighters, the blood of young people who at that\ntime were just like those of you here now. What do you want to become?\nAre you not ashamed?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Megawati reminded all law enforcement apparatus, both\nthe TNI and the Polri, to continue to defend the people.<\/p>\n<p>She reminded them that the Kudatuli tragedy must never be repeated in\nthe future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey TNI, hey police, where do you come from? You are in fact\nchildren of the people who have been given the opportunity to do what?\nTo defend your people! Take my words to heart! Let what happened 30\nyears ago never happen again! My heart aches \u2014 why was it that at that\ntime only power was on their minds? Where was your love for your\npeople?\u201d Megawati concluded.<\/p>",
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