Trisakti students launch reform tour

Trisakti students launch reform tour

JAKARTA (JP): Forty Trisakti University students have begun a
reform tour to 25 universities throughout the country to reignite
the reform movement, for which four of their colleagues were
killed last May.

The tour kicked off on Tuesday with Trisakti rector Thoby
Mutis speaking to a gathering at the university's campus in West
Jakarta.

Thoby urged students to unite and create a coordinated
strategy to be implemented throughout the country.

"The reform movement has yet to end. Students should rethink
their goals and improve their unity," Thoby said.

Trisakti student senate chairman Yulianto Hendro Cahyono said
the tour was aimed at generating support from other universities
to press the Armed Forces to investigate and reveal the killers
of their four friends.

The four students were killed on May 12 during a demonstration
which later led to the resignation of then president Soeharto.
They were Heri Hartanto of the School of Industrial Technology,
Elang Mulya of the School of Architecture, Hendriawan Sie of the
School of Economics and Hafidhin Royan of the School of Civil
Engineering.

So far, only two police officers have been sentenced to prison
by a military tribunal for ordering their men to shoot at the
demonstrators.

"We will screen a film about the May incident at every
university we visit," Hendro said.

Soon after the kicking-off ceremony, the student delegation
left for the Bogor Institute of Agriculture.

Patimura University in Ambon, Maluku, in the eastern part of
Indonesia is the last university scheduled on the tour, which
ends on Oct. 8.

The Rp 60 million tour is being funded by the university, he
said. (jun)