Stop Unas' conflict

Stop Unas' conflict

From Media Indonesia

For more than a year, an internal conflict has rocked the
National University (Unas), Jakarta. On Jan. 27, the Jakarta
Court office decided that Oesman Rachman's (OR) party had to
leave Unas and surrender the university's assets to Sutan Takdir
Alisjahbana (STA).

The two parties may not benefit from the conflict, but 160
staff and lecturers have to suffer. Without any explanation, the
party of Oesman Rachman has forbidden us (the staff and
lecturers) to work or give lectures since July 1993. This means
that we do not get any salary.

Indeed for the first three months, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
paid our salary from his private funds, but certainly this cannot
go on because we are Unas employees. So we have had to sell all
of our belongings to survive and our children have had to stop
their studies.

Don't they know that their personal conflict creates extensive
consequences for many people. Why don't they stop quarreling so
the Unas students can resume their studies, and so that the
lecturers and the staff can resume their work as usual.

We beg that the authorities, such as the Ministry of Education
and Culture, Ministry of Manpower, House of Representatives and
The National Commission on Human Rights, will work together to
resolve this problem.

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