Tanjung Priok victims demand compensation

Tanjung Priok victims demand compensation

JAKARTA: Eighty five representatives of victims of the 1984
Tanjung Priok incident demanded compensation, restitution and
rehabilitation from the government on Friday.

Earlier, prosecutors of the ad hoc rights tribunal demanded
that 15 Tanjung Priok victims be given compensation, restitution
and rehabilitation worth Rp 33 billion (US$3.9 million).

"We want to show that victims of the incident were not only
those 15 people," chairman of the Future Generation Association
(YPB) Ahmad Sahi said at the Central Jakarta District Court.

The YPB is an organization of supporters of the islah (Islamic
reconciliation settlement) between representatives of the
families of victims and Army officers.

However, they had not yet figured out the amount of financial
compensation they were seeking.

At least 33 civilians were killed and 55 others injured in the
clash between Army personnel and civilians in Tanjung Priok on
Sept. 12, 1984. --JP