1. FKM: 10 x 3 lines:
1. FKM: 10 x 3 lines:
FKM defies
Maluku
authorities
The Maluku Sovereignty Front (FKM), affiliated with the South
Maluku Republic (RMS) separatist movement, said 2,500 supporters
would raise the RMS flag in observance of the group's 54th
anniversary on April 25, in defiance of the Maluku authorities.
FKM secretary-general Moses Tuanakota said the banned group
had organized numerous activities across the province, including
the raising of the RMS flag, to mark the independence movement's
anniversary.
"In observing of the RMS' 54th anniversary, supporters and
sympathizers will hold a flag-raising ceremony in our home
village. As a consequence, 2,500 supporters of the RMS are ready
to be shot dead or sent to jail for 20 years," he said during a
press conference here on Friday.
2. Bomb: 22 x 2 lines
Palu police arrest another
Makassar bomb suspect
Police in the Central Sulawesi capital of Palu have arrested a
suspect in the Makassar bombings who has been on the run since
December last year.
The suspect, identified as Wirahadi alias Hadi, 21, was
apprehended on Thursday at his boarding house on Jl.
Sisimangaraja in East Palu district, chief of the provincial
police Brig. Gen. Taufiq Ridha on Friday.
With the arrest of Hadi, four suspects in the Dec. 5 blasts in
a McDonald's outlet and the NV. Hadji Kalla car dealership in the
South Sulawesi capital of Makassar remain at large. They include
the alleged mastermind, Agung Abdul Hamid.
"The suspect admitted during questioning that he was the one
who planted the bomb in the car showroom on the orders of Agung,"
Ridha said.
3. PWI: 24 x 1 line
PWI raises funds for congress
Organizers of the 21st Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI)
congress have been traveling around Central Kalimantan asking for
donations from regental administrations across the province.
The chairman of the congress' organizing committee, M.
Wahyudie, told Antara on Friday that the regional administration
of Murung Raya, South Barito and Pulang Pisau had donated a total
of Rp 55 million (US$6,193) to organizers.
Wahyudie, who is the chief editor of Kalteng Pos, said the
contributions were obtained during a recent visit to six
regencies in the northern part of the province.
During the visit, North Barito Regent Badaruddin promised to
provide Rp 15 million for the annual congress. His counterpart in
Kapuas, Burhanuddin Ali, also promised financial aid, but did not
disclose the amount, while the East Barito administration did not
respond to the organizing committee's request.
4. Lampung: 26 x 1 line
'Lampung Post' terrorized
Dissatisfying with Lampung Post daily's coverage of elect
governor Alzier Dianis Thabranie whose inauguration was delayed
for corruption case, around 50 supporters of Alzier terrorized
the newspaper's office on Jl. Soekarno Hatta in the city on
Friday, demanding it to make a correction.
The protesters who came from South Lampung and Tanggamus
regencies threatened to bring thousands of people to ransack the
office if the newspaper publishing stories discrediting the elect
governor.
"Lampung Post in its April 10 edition really discredits Pak
Alzier. We are ready to die for him. Who will dare to make
strange things on him will be facing us and Lampung people," said
Iskandar, spokesman for the protesters, in a meeting with the
newspaper's editorial staff.
He accused Lampung Post of mistreating Alzier as a criminal,
demanding the daily to make a correction on its front page, the
same space for the previous story on Alzier.
The daily's edition published a story from the provincial
police that they have set up a team to hunt and arrest Alzier who
has been declared as suspect in the corruption case.
The National Police Headquarters in Jakarta have summoned the
suspect three times but the latter failed to show up.
Alzier won the gubernatorial election on Dec. 10, 2002 but
President Megawati Soekarnoputri has so far not issued yet a
decree to officiate him and swear him as governor to replace
Oemarsono.
Home Affairs Minister Hari Sabarno said it was impossible for
the president to install Alzier because of his status as suspect
in the case.