PRD is declared illegal<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government declared yesterday the Democratic
\nPeople's Party (PRD) and organizations associated with it as
\nillegal.<\/p>\n
The government also ordered its activists and sympathizers to
\ndissolve.<\/p>\n
Officials of the National Police, the Attorney General's
\nOffice, the State Intelligence Coordinating Body, the Armed
\nForces headquarters and the Home Affairs Ministry said in a joint
\nstatement yesterday that PRD and its associated organizations
\nhave disturbed national stability and order.<\/p>\n
The six associate organizations include the Indonesian
\nStudents Solidarity, the Center for Indonesian Labor Struggle,
\nthe People's Cultural Network, the National Farmers Association,
\nthe Indonesian People Association, the Djakarta People
\nAssociation and the Solo People Association.<\/p>\n
The PRD and the other six organizations have failed to name
\nstate ideology Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution as their
\npolitical guidelines, according to former director-general of
\nsociopolitical affairs Sutoyo N.K., who chaired the
\ninterdepartmental investigation into the organizations.<\/p>\n
Sutoyo, however, denied an earlier government allegation that
\nthe PRD was connected with the outlawed Indonesian Communist
\nParty (PKI), blamed for the bloody 1965 coup attempt.<\/p>\n
\"We (the government) have never considered PRD identical with
\nPKI,\" he said.<\/p>\n
PRD was established on July 22 last year at a gathering at the
\nFoundation of the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute.<\/p>\n
Nine PRD leaders were recently sentenced to between 18 months
\nand 13 years in prison for subversion, with chairman Budiman
\nSudjatmiko receiving the longest term.<\/p>\n
Sutoyo said the government would continue investigating other
\nproblematic organizations, including the Democratic Union
\nDevelopment Party and the Indonesian Prosperous Workers Union.
\n(imn)<\/p>",
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