Communist belts scare Banyumas

Communist belts scare Banyumas

PURWOKERTO, Central Java: The police have arrested a 32-year-
old trader on charges of selling belts with buckles bearing the
communist hammer-and-sickle symbol.

Col. Bambang Munarso, chief of the Banyumas police command,
said yesterday that the authorities are tracking down a resident
of Medan, North Sumatra, whom they suspect of supplying the
belts.

The police confiscated three belts with the communist symbol
from the road-side trader identified only as HS, a local
resident.

Bambang also reported that the authorities have questioned the
director of CV BA in Tegal, identified as Fr, 45, in connection
with the recent startling appearance of a communist logo on the
screens of computers it sold to Brebes regency government.

He said no one had been detained in connection with the
computer screen case. The symbol first appeared on Brebes
officials' computer screens on Oct. 1, the day Indonesia
commemorates the victory of the state ideology Pancasila over
communism in 1965.

Indonesia banned the Indonesian Communist Party after it was
blamed for the bloody Sept. 30, 1965 coup attempt. All its
symbols and attributes were banned as well. (wah/pan)