Soeharto awards for Gus Dur and Marzuki

Soeharto awards for Gus Dur and Marzuki

JAKARTA (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid and Attorney General
Marzuki Darusman are among some of the recipients of the second
ignoble "Soeharto Awards" from the University of Indonesia's (UI)
Student Executive Council.

Abdurrahman won in two categories in the student poll -- for
failing to eradicate corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN) and
for maintaining the status quo.

Marzuki was chosen in the anti-law supremacy category.

Former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief and minister of defense
and security Gen. (ret) Benny Moerdani won in the antihuman
rights category.

According to the council's president, M. Taufik Riyadi, 650
University of Indonesia students participated in the poll.

About 30 UI students marched to Merdeka Palace to present the
40-centimeter-high trophies to the President on Wednesday.
However, as the President was abroad and no palace officials were
available to accept them, the students placed the two trophies
under the iron gate at front of the palace.

They also failed to meet with Marzuki, and also placed the
trophy at the front of his office on Jl. Sisimangaraja, South
Jakarta.

It was not clear whether they were able to meet with Benny,
who last made his public appearance at the National Commission on
Human Rights office for a questioning over his knowledge of the
mass killings by military troops in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta
in 1984. He was the Indonesian armed forces when the bloodshed
took place.

Last year's winners included Abdurrahman's predecessor B.J.
Habibie and Marzuki's predecessor Andi M. Ghalib. (09)