From students and people's movement

From students and people's movement

From Rakyat Merdeka

On behalf of the "student and people movement toward a New
Indonesia", I hereby express my great thanks for the publication
of our series of messages. The messages were born as a result of
the students' struggle to enforce and safeguard the agenda of
total reform, that has been treated like a game by government
politicians and military leaders.

We dedicate the program to the struggle of the students whose
purity -- we trust -- will lead to a New Indonesia.

With the publication of our messages we believe that the
press, in the middle of commercialism, has not lost its idealism
and has created a synergy with many elements with similar wishes.

With very limited resources, the program has succeeded because
we are convinced that the silent majority of Indonesians want
change, and the students are the avant-garde in that struggle.

We also trust that the media are an effective means to convey
our messages to the community because the other side, the regime
of the status quo, with unlimited means due to collusion,
corruption and nepotism during its 33 years, uses whatever media
to influence and to twist facts about the students' struggle.

Thank you again. You are the future of Indonesia's democracy,
in line with your new slogan "The Flame of Indonesia's
Democracy". You have also lit a candle in the darkness. Your
readers, plus the 35 democratic elements in the community,
support the program.

RIZA PRIMAHENDRA

Coordinator for

INPEACE Working Team

Jakarta