Soekardjo's lawyer detained

Soekardjo's lawyer detained

YOGYAKARTA: Police picked up lawyer Satryawan Guntur Zass here
on Thursday after he failed to respond to two previous police
summonses.

Zass has been representing Soekardjo Wilardjito, a former aide
to Sukarno who alleged that four generals intimidated the
founding president into relinquishing power to Soeharto.

The lawyer rejected the summonses because he reportedly did
not want to be a witness in the case against his own client.
Police have been questioning Soekardjo for slander.

Soekardjo has insisted he saw four generals -- not three as
recorded in the official historical account of the March 11, 1966
event -- visit Sukarno at the Bogor Presidential Palace.

He said the four generals forced Sukarno into signing a
document giving Soeharto (then minister of the Army) a carte
blanche to take measures to restore order following the 1965
aborted coup attempt blamed on the outlawed Indonesian Communist
Party (PKI).

Responding to reporters' questions on Zass' detention, Chief
detective Lt. Col. Erwin Tobing said the lawyer was not "picked
up" because the police had obtained a warrant. (23)