Ratna to stage 'Marsinah Menggugat'<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Playwright Ratna Sarumpaet plans to stage
\nMarsinah Menggugat (Marsinah Accuses) at Universitas Nasional,
\nSouth Jakarta tomorrow at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
According to a 1995 government decree, no permits are needed
\nto stage art performances, but Marsinah Menggugat was banned late
\nlast year in Surabaya, Lampung and Bandung.<\/p>\n
Based on a case about labor activist Marsinah who was raped
\nand murdered in 1993, the play has evaded banning in Taman Ismail
\nMarzuki arts center (TIM) in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Ratna, 49, told The Jakarta Post that a recent statement by
\nNational Police chief Gen. Dibyo Widodo confirmed that
\ninvestigations on the case had been postponed indefinitely.<\/p>\n
Ratna's play, one of a number items on the students' agenda at
\nthe university, will accompany demands to reopen the Marsinah
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\"Students are going to make demands for the resuming of
\ninvestigations for the Marsinah case and the 14-year-old Tanjung
\nPriok case,\" in which survivors of riots that took place in
\nTanjung Priok claim that some 400 died.<\/p>\n
Ratna, who is also founder of the prodemocracy alliance
\nSolidaritas Indonesia Untuk Amien dan Mega (the Indonesian
\nSolidarity for Amien Rais and Megawati Soekarnoputri) also wrote
\nthe plays Marsinah, Nyanyian dari Bawah Tanah (Marsinah, A Song
\nfrom Underground), Terpasung (Chained) and Pesta Terakhir (The
\nLast Party). (ylt)<\/p>",
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