Stand up to stop terrible violations

Stand up to stop terrible violations

I am a foreigner who has worked here for nearly 10 years and loves this country. In 1994 I worked for a textile company which was owned by a prominent Chinese-Indonesian. I was fired without excuse or receiving the compensation stipulated in the contract. At the time I appealed in this column for help, but in vain.

Here in this lovely country there are too many wrongful cases. Mine is trifling compared to the kidnappings, torture and killings by the previous governments. It was interesting to read an article in the Washington Post of Jan. 26, 2000, titled On Pinochet's trial. I wonder when there will be a judge like Mr. Juan Guzman to do what he is doing and let justice be done here at last.

If you read the article published on Jan. 26, 2000 in the Post about illegal logging in the national park, I was saddened by the beating of the environmental activists. I feel distressed that this lovely country has so many wrongful cases which are a burden on the kind and gentle people, yet nobody has the courage to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Please, Indonesians, do something to stop the violations of human rights and solve the unresolved cases in your own country.

TONY HSU

Bandung