Tanjung Priok case gets prosecutors

Tanjung Priok case gets prosecutors

JAKARTA: The Attorney General's Office has appointed 14
prosecutors to handle the case of the 1984 Tanjung Priok shooting
incident in which at least 33 people died.

At least 14 active and retired military officers, including
the incumbent commander of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus),
Maj. Gen. Sriyanto, have been named suspects in the case.

On Sept. 12, 1984 soldiers opened fire on antigovernment
protesters outside the Tanjung Priok mosque in North Jakarta.

The shooting left 33 dead and 55 injured, according to a probe
by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM). Families
of victims say the number of casualties was much higher.

Sriyanto headed the North Jakarta military operation at the
time.

Attorney General's Office spokesman Antasari Azhar said
that most of the 14 prosecutors had handled the prosecution in
the East Timor human rights tribunal.

"They have had experience with cases on gross human rights
abuses at the ad hoc human rights tribunal," he said, referring
to the special court set up to try gross human rights violations.

Around 1,000 East Timorese died in the violence that followed
East Timor's vote to separate from Indonesia in 1999. The United
Nations blamed military-backed militias for the violence.

The tribunal acquitted almost all military and police figures
who stood trial for the East Timor violence. Critics blamed the
prosecutors for ignoring evidence presented by the UN, among
others. -- JP

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Wiranto launches book on Soeharto

JAKARTA: Former coordinating minister for political and
security affairs Gen. (ret) Wiranto launched a book on Monday
advising Indonesians to remain true to the 1998 reform spirit
that ended Soeharto's three decades of authoritarian rule.

The book, titled Bersaksi di Tengah Badai (To testify in the
midst of a storm), also relates his experience as a minister
under three presidents: Soeharto, B.J. Habibie and Abdurrahman
Wahid. It is Wiranto's third book.

He said the book should serve as a reminder to all leaders and
Indonesians to pursue the reforms sought during the 1998 reform
movement.

No significant achievements had been made since the beginning
of the reform movement five years ago, he told a press briefing.

Wiranto has been touted as a presidential candidate
representing the Golkar Party and the tiny Indonesian Workers
Party (PPI). He has also been indicted by East Timor prosecutors
for his alleged role in the mass violence that followed the
former province's vote to separate from Indonesia in 1999. -- JP

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RI to host 6th EAP Ministerial meeting

JAKARTA: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) named
Indonesia as the host of its sixth East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
Ministerial Consultation meeting next month.

The meeting will discuss ways to improve children's welfare in
the East Asia-Pacific region for the coming decade. Bali will
host the meeting from May 5 through May 7.

"What the EAP agree to in Bali, the consensus, will form the
basis for UNICEF's efforts in Indonesia and throughout the
region," UNICEF said in a statement on Monday.

It said the meeting would focus on four development issues
facing the region: nutrition, maternal and neonatal mortality,
commercial sexual exploitation of children and trafficking, and
HIV/AIDS.

UNICEF has voiced concern over Indonesia's poor record in each
of the four issues.

President Megawati Soekarnoputri will open the meeting and
Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi will deliver the keynote speech.
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RI wins gold in physics olympiad

BANGKOK: Indonesia has won six gold medals and two honorable
mentions in the fourth Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in Bangkok,
Thailand, APhO president and head of the Indonesian delegation
Yohanes Surya said on Monday.

Held between April 20 to April 29, 2003, at Mahidol
University, the Indonesian delegation was one of 10 Asian country
delegations to participate in this year's Olympiad. The others
were Australia, Chinese Taipei, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Laos,
Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Indonesia sent eight high school students to the Olympiad, the
premier physics competition for Asian countries, and competed
against 64 competitors.

APhO is modeled after the International Physics Olympiad with
a similar level of difficulty.

Competitors representing each Asian country are drawn from
pre-university students. -- JP

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Run-down school nearing collapse

PURWAKARTA, West Java: Students and teachers are taking a
considerable risk by attending classes at Nagrog Elementary
School in Sakambang village in the West Java regency of Bojong,
as the poorly maintained school could collapse at anytime.

"Classroom activities have been interrupted by concerns that
the building could suddenly fall apart," several elementary
students and a teacher said on Monday.

The Nagrog elementary school has six classrooms, with one room
that has the ceiling already caved in. The staff room also looks
like it is about to collapse if there is a strong wind.

"If the wind gets strong then classroom activities are often
suspended and students are banned from playing inside or even in
the schoolyard because it could collapse suddenly," said Sukarna,
who lives near Nagrog school.

The school also lacks desks for the students. -- Antara

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Salons accused of selling drugs

JAMBI, Jambi: Religious and local figures in the city of Jambi
have asked the administration to close beauty salons providing
karaoke rooms as a front for prostitution and drug use.

"Several beauty salons have been turned into a place to take
drugs, with karaoke facilities in each one," said Jambi religious
figure Abdul Hamid.

He said he had received numerous reports from people living or
working near the beauty salons. Many of the salons not only
offered haircuts but also a karaoke room in a secluded area in
the back, usually on the second floor or in the basement.

Hamid said guests could take drugs in the company of women in
these rooms.

Riska, 19, who works at one of the beauty salons said her only
job was to wait for men who wanted to use the karaoke facilities.

"Most often they come to have their hair washed or cut, but as
soon as they are offered the karaoke rooms they no longer want to
wash and cut their hair," she said. -- Antara