Post-Idul Fitri acts of violence

Post-Idul Fitri acts of violence

From Rakyat Merdeka

From my observations of the current political situation in Indonesia, I can tell that political parties, as well as NGOs, have been demanding their rights to the current government, or expressing their objection or disapproval toward other parties, by positioning acts of violence at the fore.

This began a few weeks before former president Soeharto stepped down in May 1998. It has been as if people have learnt how to conduct acts of violence from those directly involved in that destructive and bloody violence.

Considering that big political parties normally have what they call task force, and in view of the current political situation in which parties and NGOs have been fighting each other unceasingly, thus causing suffering and harm to the people, particularly the have-nots, I would like to warn all parties including the government to watch out for post-Idul Fitri acts of violence all over this country.

HIMAWAN

Jakarta