2. 2 x 3, 24pts

2. 2 x 3, 24pts

'Jakarta, Dili not serious
about human rights cases'

A human rights activist has expressed doubts that Indonesia and
East Timor are serious about resolving the question of human
rights abuses in the former Indonesian province as both are still
lack the necessary legal instruments to deal with the cases.

Bambang Widjoyanto, who is also a former chairman of the
Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), also expressed regret
that both the Indonesian and East Timorese governments had
decided to place more emphasis on diplomatic ties than justice.

"The two countries never sit down and discuss the legal
arrangements for the trying of the perpetrators of human rights
abuses," Bambang told The Jakarta Post.

"They merely bring up the human rights issue to satisfy their
domestic constituents, but lack any real intention of resolving
the outstanding issues," he added.

He was commenting on the issue of repeat indictments by the
Dili district court against the Indonesia Military (TNI) generals
and mid-ranking officials who have been implicated in the spate
of violence the hit the country in 1999.

3. 1 x 5, 32pts

Prosecutors seek 10 years for Tono Suratman

4. 1 x 5, 34pts

Hospitals treated me like a criminal: Activist

The government may claim the criticism of its efforts to tackle
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is excessive, but an
activist has personally discovered that all is far from well in
our hospitals.

Nurul Qoiriah, a program officer for a Hong Kong-based
Indonesian migrant workers organization, shared her experiences
of being a suspected SARS sufferer with the press recently.

"They treated me like I was a criminal," said Nurul, referring
to the doctors and other healthcare workers whom she came into
contact with.

Last week, she suddenly felt ill six days after arriving home
from Hong Kong. She immediately went to the Persahabatan Hospital
in East Jakarta, which has been designated by the government as
the second SARS treatment hospital in Jakarta after the Sulianti
Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) in North Jakarta.

Upon learning that she had just come back from Hong Kong,
where SARS had claimed several lives at that time, the
Persahabatan Hospital nurses and the doctor who were attending
her went into a panic, Nurul recalled.

Later, the doctor told her to take a chest X-ray to ascertain
whether she had SARS or not. She had to pay about Rp 150,000
(about US$16) for the treatment she received.

"At the beginning, they did not try to find out what was
really wrong with me. They just treated me as if I had SARS," she
said, while showing her bill from the Persahabatan Hospital to
reporters.

When her chest X-ray showed no sign of pneumonia, the doctor
allowed her to go home after checking her throat and giving her
some medicine.