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.