Activists lose suit against police

Activists lose suit against police

JAKARTA (JP): Four activists from the Agrarian Reform
Consortium (KPA) lost their lawsuit against the Jakarta Police at
the South Jakarta District Court last week.

At a pretrial hearing, judge Muchtar Ritonga dismissed the
case on a technicality, saying that the plaintiffs had never been
declared suspects by the police to begin with.

The four -- Anton Sulton, Idham Kurniawan, Mohamad Hafiz Azdam
and Usep Setiawan -- had filed a lawsuit against the police
saying that they were forcibly removed while staging a hunger
strike at the People's Consultative Assembly complex in August.

They were demanding compensation of Rp 4 billion.

The four activists staged the hunger strike in August to draw
attention to various land conflicts in Indonesia. (01)