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        "id": 1095077,
        "msgid": "police-admit-attack-on-lbh-office-wrong-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-03-20 00:00:00",
        "title": "Police admit attack on LBH office wrong",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Police admit attack on LBH office wrong JAKARTA (JP): The city police and the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) reached an agreement on Monday to respect each other's rights following a controversial attack on the lawyers' office last week. LBH deputy director Daniel Panjaitan said after a meeting with the city police's deputy chief Brig. Gen. Makbul Padmanagara that the police would honor \"LBH integrity\" by avoiding arbitrary searches and raids on the LBH office.",
        "content": "<p>Police admit attack on LBH office wrong<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The city police and the Jakarta Legal Aid<br>\nInstitute (LBH) reached an agreement on Monday to respect each<br>\nother's rights following a controversial attack on the lawyers'<br>\noffice last week.<\/p>\n<p>LBH deputy director Daniel Panjaitan said after a meeting with<br>\nthe city police's deputy chief Brig. Gen. Makbul Padmanagara that<br>\nthe police would honor \"LBH integrity\" by avoiding arbitrary<br>\nsearches and raids on the LBH office.<\/p>\n<p>Police broke into the office on Jl. Diponegoro, Central<br>\nJakarta last Wednesday and arrested 14 people inside whom they<br>\naccused of inciting a mass brawl pitting Student Executive Board<br>\n(BEM) activists demanding President Abdurrahman Wahid step down<br>\nand their rivals demanding Golkar's dissolution.<\/p>\n<p>\"The police promised they would no longer make arbitrary raids<br>\non our office and arrest people in case of a mass brawl occurring<br>\nnearby,\" Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Makbul admitted that the attack was wrong but<br>\njustified it as \"an attempt to calm the BEM supporters who were<br>\nemotional.\"<\/p>\n<p>The clash broke out as BEM activists were marching towards<br>\ntheir base at the University of Indonesia campus in Salemba,<br>\nCentral Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>A group of people reportedly tossed molotov cocktails at the<br>\nmarching students near the LBH office. The attackers were<br>\nbelieved to be hiding inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel denied allegations that the attackers took shelter at<br>\nhis office.<\/p>\n<p>\"All but one of the people arrested by the police were our<br>\nclients who were consulting with us about their cases,\" Daniel<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>BEM activists went to the city police on Friday to hand over<br>\ndozens of molotov cocktails they claimed were to have been used<br>\nby the rival group to attack them.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel said that if the BEM failed to produce witnesses in<br>\nconnection with the attack, the case should be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, activists from the Democratic People's Party,<br>\nNational Student Movement League and several other student groups<br>\nissued a joint-statement demanding the police investigate the<br>\nalleged attack on the BEM students in a fair and impartial<br>\nmanner. (01\/amd)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/police-admit-attack-on-lbh-office-wrong-1447893297",
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