Banned photos displayed

Banned photos displayed

YOGYAKARTA: Two photographs that had been barred by police from a photo exhibition were put on display on Wednesday after the organizer secured police permission, Antara reported.

Both photographs depicted street demonstrations, one of the massive street protest in January 1974 known as the Malari incident, and the other, a 1995 photo, is entitled "The Fate of a Demonstrator". They were taken by Ircham and Eko respectively, both photographers of Yogyakarta's Kedaulatan Rakyat daily newspaper.

The two photos had been removed, on police orders, from the "Yogyakarta in the eyes of Yogya journalists" exhibition at the Yogyakarta Gallery when it was opened on Monday.

Dedi H. Purwadi put the two photographs back on display yesterday, and next to it, he put up a framed copy of the police approval. "This is to inform anyone who had funny ideas, that we've got the permit."

Yogyakarta Police have denied ever ordering the removal of the two photographs, but Dedi insisted that an officer at the precinct gave the instruction by phone as a condition for giving the green light to the exhibition. (emb)