Shock, Grief and Anger

Shock, Grief and Anger

Photo A/B/C/D: Unrest

JP/P.J. Leo, JP/Alex Lumi, JP/IGGP Bayu Ismoyo, JP/Mulkan Salmona

A NATION IN CRISIS:
Students confront troops during a standoff outside Atma Jaya
University in the early hours of Saturday (left above photo).
President B.J. Habibie convenes a meeting with religious and
public figures at the Merdeka Palace to discuss the crisis (right
above photo). Students sit on the ground outside the People's
Consultative Assembly (MPR) building and hold a free speech
forum. The banner reads "students are not objects of war
exercises" (left photo). Minister of Education and Culture Juwono
Sudarsono visits a student receiving treatment at Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital (right photo). The student, Paul
Sabar Hutasoit, was one of many injured during clashes with
soldiers on Friday.

Photo D/E/F: Backlash

JP/Mulkan Salmona, JP/Saprizal, JP/Saprizal

THE BACKLASH: A Kijang van with a military license plate is set
on fire by a mob on Jl. Salemba (left photo). A bleeding police
officer is saved from further blows after colleagues come to his
rescue (above photo). The officer was mobbed by a crowd on Jl.
Senen Raya. Rioters set fire to electronics goods emptied looted
from a shop on Jl. Senen Raya (right photo).

Photo G/H/I: Marines

JP/Oka Budhi Yogaswara, JP/Oka Budhi Yogaswara, JP/P.J. Leo

TELL THAT TO THE MARINES: Troops in armored cars pass by a
burning branch of Bank Danamon in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta,
(far left photo). The area was the scene of sporadic rioting on
Saturday. A young man with a stone in his hand waits for passing
soldiers on Jl. Sudirman (left photo). The crowd makes way for a
truckload of marines near Senen Atrium Mall. The marines
succeeded in calming the crowd after other elements in the
military had failed (photo above).