Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 05-05-2014 Impunity

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Dutch Apology for Indonesian Atrocities Opens Old Impunity Wounds The Jakarta Globe, 01-05-2014 – Agence France Presse Journalist Udin’s murder still unsolved For this human touch article: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/dutch- The Jakarta Post, 05-05-2014 apology-indonesian-atrocities-opens-old-wounds/

Jakarta 1998 was bad, but Prabowo likely had more blood on his hands in East Timor Inside Indonesia, April 2014, by Gerry van Klinken

As everybody knows, one of the strongest candidates for the presidency has an image problem, related to his army days. But abducting a couple of dozen student activists in 1998 is not Prabowo’s worst human rights problem, though it’s what he’s best known for. Fifteen years earlier he was in the middle of a counter-insurgency operation in East Timor that claimed many hundreds of lives. It started on 16 September 1983 with the massacre of dozens of people, including women and children. They had surrendered to Indonesian soldiers after coming down from Mount Bibileo near Viqueque. Unbowed: Wanggi Hoediyatno, a mime, performs at an Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) rally to observe World Press Freedom Day, at Gedung Sate, the A survivor told the East Timorese truth commission CAVR: "Three Hansip [civil governor’s office, in Bandung, West Java, on Saturday. The murders of eight guards] led the way and other military personnel surrounded the group of people journalists — including Udin, who was killed after reporting on local corruption so no one could escape… We started to walk at around 3.00pm and arrived at the for Yogyakarta-based daily Bernas — have gone unsolved since 1996. (JP/Arya location on the mountain at approximately 4.00pm…We sat down and again Dipa) military personnel surrounded us to avoid any escapes… Then more Indonesian soldiers arrived… When they arrived we were given the order to stand up. I was

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Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 05-05-2014 standing, along with everyone else, facing the valley. Then we were told to walk. I In 1983 Prabowo Subianto, aged 32, was a captain in the Special Forces, took one step and the Indonesian soldiers opened fire on us. I fell to the ground, Kopassandha. Later renamed Kopassus, this force was the New Order’s most along with my brother. People who had been shot fell on top of me. The trusted, most capable, iron fist. It is a miracle we know anything at all about his Indonesian soldiers shot everyone in the back. Then the gunfire ceased and the activities – elite forces mostly work in secret. Prabowo’s career was on the verge soldiers were having a rest and a cigarette. One member of the Indonesian army of a breakthrough. He was intelligent and came from an elite family. But in the told M303 [a Hansip commander] to speak in his language, Tetum, and tell lower reaches of the Indonesian military of the early 1980s, that was not enough. anyone who was still alive… to stand up. No one answered this command. Then Advancement required connections, and violence. Everything came together for the soldiers opened fire again, on the bodies lying there. Then I heard two small Prabowo in 1983. His astuteness won him repeated invitations to overseas children, one girl and one boy, [who were] about 1-2 years old. When they shot, training courses – to the American Fort Bragg in 1980, to the German GSG-9 they had missed the children. Then M303…went over to the two babies and took probably in 1981, and later to Fort Benning in 1985. Each time he scored ‘top a knife and stabbed them to death. Then the Indonesian [soldiers] and Hansip graduate.’ In 1982 he was invited, with Major Luhut Pandjaitan, to form a new took another break and had a cigarette." anti-terror unit called Detachment 81 within Kopassandha, to try out his skills. He also commanded a new Kopassandha counter-insurgency unit called Chandraca Chega!, the CAVR report, has 55 names of people killed on that day. On the next 8. He probably took this Chandraca unit to East Timor in March or April 1983. day, another massacre took place nearby, again of East Timorese who had Indonesia had invaded East Timor in 1975, and this was his second tour of duty surrendered off Mount Bibileo. Chega! lists 141 names for that one. Altogether there. (The first was as a lieutenant in 1977-78, at the height of the fighting. He Chega! has 530 names of people killed or disappeared during a counter- was involved in the killing of East Timorese resistance hero Nicolau Lobato, insurgency operation that ran into 1984, throughout East Timor. A large number whose head was reportedly sent to Jakarta in triumph so President Suharto could also died of hunger in the closely guarded concentration camp for survivors from verify the death for himself.) Mount Bibileo. Connections? Prabowo married the president’s daughter, Siti Hediati Harijadi All journalists know about the abductions in 1998 that ended Prabowo’s military (Titiek), in May 1983. They divorced in 2001, but throughout the New Order the career. Few seem to know about this operation in East Timor in 1983, at the start access she gave him to the president was the envy of his fellow officers. He could of it. When Jakarta Post journalist Aboeprijadi Santoso last December did afford to behave above his rank. And then the violence. In April of that same year remember, Prabowo took the trouble to send a reader’s letter saying it was an 1983, East Timor’s guerrilla army Falintil had signed a ceasefire with the ‘unproven allegation.’ So what do we know for sure about his involvement in Indonesian armed forces. For the Indonesian high command, it was the prelude these events, and what would we dearly like to be surer of? to complete victory, but for the Timorese, it was a chance to regroup. Prabowo shared the view of some officers who opposed the ceasefire for that reason.

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During subsequent months, he would pop into East Timor without reporting to Election results the commander responsible for the ceasefire, much to the latter’s discomfort. What did he have in mind? An anti-climax On 8 August 1983, Falintil commander Xanana Gusmao made his move. The Inside Indonesia, 30-04-2014 Indonesian military had put captured Falintil guerrillas to work as their auxiliaries. Xanana’s man in the east of the island, Ular Rihik (Virgílio dos Anjos), now Indonesia is part way through its election year, having held its legislative persuaded an entire detachment of such auxiliaries in the hamlet of Kraras to kill elections on 9 April, and with the country now gearing up for the first round of their Indonesian superiors and rejoin Falintil in the hills. Kraras was located on a the presidential polls in July. With more than 235,000 candidates running for plain just west of the town of Viqueque, and south of Mount Bibileo. The men seats in national, provincial and district legislatures around the country, the April killed 14 Indonesian army engineers. Three similar attacks were launched poll was a massive logistical affair. It was also the culmination of years of effort, elsewhere, on 10 and 19 August and 6 September 1983, which resulted in fewer expense and stress for a huge number of people. Yet in some ways, the actual casualties. The attacks ended the ceasefire – Falintil says the agreement was only results of the election were an anti-climax. for three months and had thus already expired. The uprising that began on 8 August 1983 is known in East Timor as the levantamento, or rising, because it A few parties experienced a drop in their vote (notably, outgoing President Susilo signified the resurgence of a resistance movement that was almost beaten. Bambang Yudhoyono’s Partai Demokrat). Some increased (most dramatically, Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra, and the newcomer party, Nasdem, headed by Knowing retaliation would follow, civilians and combatants alike then fled into media tycoon Surya Paloh). As expected, PDIP (Indonesia Democracy Party- the forests covering Mount Bibileo. Repression certainly did follow, and it seems Struggle) re-emerged as the country’s leading party, but it attained only about 19 Prabowo played a central role in it. Just how central is something we urgently per cent of the vote. Overall, however, there were no dramatic or truly need to know. unexpected changes. There was no fundamental reordering of the party system, and Indonesia’s national legislature is arguably more fragmented than ever. Read the full article: http://www.insideindonesia.org/current-edition/prabowo- and-human-rights Viewed differently, however, the legislative elections were revealing. In the first place, they cast light on the coming presidential election, an election that will indisputably present Indonesians with an important choice. For many people, the key question of the April election was what it would tell us about the prospects of the two leading presidential candidates: the PDIP’s Joko Widodo, popularly

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 05-05-2014 known as Jokowi, and the former general Prabowo Subianto. Second, the Novanto. Prabowo was accompanied by Gerindra deputy chairman Fadli Zon and elections show us much about how political power is organised and contested in party secretary-general Ahmad Muzani. a country where democracy has now become routine. Is politics in Indonesia really just about money and influence-peddling, as many people claim, or is there According to quick counts, in the April 9 legislative election, Gerindra got 11 still a place for programs, policy and even idealism? percent of the vote while Golkar garnered 14.3 percent — both failing to meet the 25 percent threshold required to nominate a presidential candidate. If the Golkar-Gerindra coalition materialized, Aburizal would likely be named its Coalition building for Presidential bid 2014 presidential candidate, given Golkar’s stronger showing in the legislative election.

Prabowo searching for a partner Aburizal, however, is less popular than Prabowo and consistently scores below the retired general in polls. Analysts have therefore suggested that Aburizal could The Jakarta Post, 01-05-2014 become Prabowo’s running mate. Golkar senior politician Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has previously said that Aburizal would not accept being in the number two spot After thus far failing to win the support of another political party for his on a ticket, given the party’s impressive performance in the legislative election. presidential bid, Gerindra Party chief patron Prabowo Subianto held a meeting with Golkar Party chairman and presumptive presidential nominee Aburizal Political analyst Arya Fernandes of Charta Politika also said a Golkar-Gerindra Bakrie to propose a political partnership ahead of the July 9 election. coalition would spell trouble as Prabowo would never give up his ambition to become president. “Being a presidential candidate is non-negotiable for Prabowo After a 90-minute closed-door meeting, the two politicians spoke to reporters and Gerindra,” he said. Arya suggested that the coalition could take shape only if about their optimism that Gerindra and Golkar could join forces to form “a Golkar dropped Aburizal’s bid in exchange for Cabinet seats in a possible formidable coalition” to win the presidential race. “We are serious in thinking Prabowo administration. “Golkar politicians may be disappointed about the about working together for the sake of the country,” Prabowo said. option but they must also be aware about Aburizal’s low electability. So whether Aburizal declined to give details about the meeting and was noncommittal when Golkar is willing to support Prabowo or not now pretty much depends on what asked about possibly pairing with Prabowo on one presidential ticket. “We are kind of ‘compensation’ Gerindra is offering Golkar,” he said. Both Aburizal and still exploring what options we have to set up a possible coalition. Both still can Prabowo also said that they had agreed to conduct more meetings in the future be presidential candidates,” Aburizal said with a chuckle. Aburizal was joined in to more comprehensively discuss possible political cooperation. the meeting by Golkar secretary-general Idrus Marham and party treasurer Setya Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politicians, meanwhile, suggested on Tuesday that its presidential candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 05-05-2014 on the verge of officially getting pledges of support from the National Awakening Jokowi: Rise of a polite populist Party (PKB) and the United Development Party (PPP). “We are in deep discussion [on collaboration] with PKB and PPP,” said PDI-P senior politician Pramono Inside Indonesia, April 2014, by Marcus Mietzner Anung, who is also a deputy speaker at the House of Representatives. Jokowi has Ever since his appearance on the national political stage in 2012, Joko Widodo also earlier said: “[We are] almost there.” (popularly referred to as Jokowi) has had an almost hypnotic impact on Indonesia’s elite and public at large. The media have followed his every word and Farmers support Jokowi move, and political actors were forced to redefine their strategies in anticipation The Jakarta Post, 01-05-2014 of Jokowi’s expected run for the presidency. Hence, it was no surprise that Jokowi was also at the centre of Indonesia’s legislative election campaign in A farmers’ union has announced its support for Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” March and April 2014, and that discussion of the success or failure of the ‘Jokowi Widodo’s presidential bid. "We will organize teams at all levels to assist Jokowi in effect’ dominated post-election analyses. attaining his goal,” Mugi Ramanu, chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI), said in Mampang on Thursday as quoted by tempo.co. On Thursday, Jokowi Indeed, it has been a remarkable journey for Jokowi, transforming him from a visited the SPI office to discuss various agricultural issues that farmers faced. small-town furniture entrepreneur to Indonesia’s presidential frontrunner and pop culture phenomenon. This article briefly documents his spectacular rise, but Marsinem, a farmer from Aceh, for example, said that farmers in Aceh faced land also demonstrates how complacency, strategic mistakes and infighting in PDIP ownership problems. She added that most farmers found it difficult to own land and Jokowi’s circle have undermined his performance in the April elections and and thus worked as laborers. "Hopefully Jokowi can resolve this problem once eroded his previously unassailable lead in the polls. While still the candidate to he claims the presidency,” he said. Sebastian Alam from East Nusa Tenggara said beat, Jokowi now faces a much tougher presidential race than he (and most he expected Jokowi to do his best to gain independence in the agricultural sector. observers) had imagined.

Jokowi said he appreciated the support and noticed that most of the problems Read the full article: http://www.insideindonesia.org/current-edition/jokowi-rise- involved land ownership. “We will make sure to convert no land for industrial, of-a-polite-populist?utm_source=All+Subscribers&utm_campaign=876681fdb5- residential or agricultural purposes,” he said. Feature_Edition_111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_32cd77f926- 876681fdb5-295518369

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Social and Economic Rights He did not explain that the influx of migrants has largely contributed to the change in numbers while indigenous Papuans continue to suffer from a high level of poverty and lack of access to education. Since the enactment of the Special Indonesia reports to the ESC-Committee Autonomy Law for Papua in 2001 the number of regencies has increased from 9 01-05-2014, Coalition on West Papua to the present number of 42, creating an inflated and highly corrupt public http://www.humanrightspapua.org/news/83-cescr2014prl administration. Mr Amirrudin of the Indonesian delegation alleged that most of these regencies are governed by freely elected Papuans, sweeping the massive On April 30 and May 1st, 2014, the UN Committee on Economic Social and corruption in the allocation of posts in Papua under the carpet. Cultural Rights in Geneva assessed the level of implementation of these rights in Indonesia. The review process covered access to health care and education, the In regard to the allegation of land-grabbing in Papua for development projects, problem of land-grabbing, and the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. In the delegation argued that indigenous Papuans have been consulted and given a the discussion the Committee showed particular concern to the situation in special provision for benefit sharing. This included the development projects of Papua. the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE), PT Sinar Mas in Jayapura, PTP II Kerong and PT SDIC in Manokwari. After the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (English, Indonesian) came into force in 1966, Indonesia ratified the treaty in 2005. As a The Committee asked the delegation how it conducts human rights impact party to the covenant it is required to present its implementation report every studies before providing licenses for extractive industries. It questioned how the five years. The Committee was now able to conduct its first review of Indonesia government ensures the application of the process of Free Prior and Informed after Jakarta had submitted its initial report with years of delay. Consent (FPIC) when corporations appropriate land from traditional communities. The Indonesian delegation explained that the FPIC principles have The Committee asked Indonesia about the considerable poverty gap between the been incorporated in the existing laws, including the Special Autonomy Law for two Papuan and other Indonesian provinces. The Head of the Unit for the Papua. However, the delegation was not able to provide further explanations on Acceleration of Development in Papua and West Papua (UP4B), Mr Bambang the methodology and implementation of the FPIC principles. Darmono, as a member of the Indonesian delegation, explained the increase of the number of regencies as an indicator of success. He also referred to the The Committee took into account the Constitutional Court decision and its reduction of the percentage of poor people in the Papuan provinces over the past possible effect on the affected communities and FPIC mechanisms in the future. number of years. Mr Zudan Arif from the Ministry of Home Affairs emphazised that the decision is legally binding but did not explain why it was not implemented on the ground.

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Regarding the recognition of Masyarakat Hukum Adat, the delegation of the expected to implement the recommendations of the international Committee to government of Indonesia rejected the concept of indigenous as applicable to protect the human rights of its citizens. Indonesia. The delegation explained that due to the historically static demographic composition of ethnic groups they “consider all indonesians as For a full summary of the session from the UNOG indigenous”. They emphazised that Masyarakat Hukum Adat is not referring to a http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYear_en)/A4C minority or marginalized group and that the special legal systems used by these BCCBA68B5915CC1257CCB0054F0C8?OpenDocument communities are respected by the government of Indonesia.

To the question of the Committee that in many areas in Papua 50% of the Support for domestic workers in Hongkong teachers do not turn up for work, Bambang Darmono explained that 95 districts Amnesty International Asia-Pacific Migrant Workers Project, April 2014 in 21 regencies have been classified as isolated. He went on to explain that local authorities had been asked to give more attention to those units. Four hundred Human rights groups have collected 103,307 signatures from more than 160 teachers were sent to Papua in 2012 and another 900 in 2013, while at the same countries calling on the Hong Kong government to take immediate steps to stop time fresh high school graduates shall address the lack of trained village teachers. the abuse of foreign domestic workers. Darmono did not present a strategy to ensure that employed teachers are actually turning up for work. He admitted that in areas like Puncak, teachers Workers' rights campaigners flew in from Africa, India, Nepal and elsewhere to would often not be prepared to work under the present conditions. UP4B plans present the petition to the government in Tamar yesterday. to provide access to 17.000 children in the 95 isolated districts by 2014. "It is time to tell the government that not just we, but people from over the Cooperation with religious institutions shall be another strategy to provide world, want the government to stop the abuse of workers," said Elizabeth Tang education through boarding schools. Yin-ngor, general secretary of the International Domestic Workers Federation. Indonesia also explained that it does not plan to ratify any of the international The petition started when news of the alleged abuse of Indonesian domestic treaties that would allow Indonesian nationals to launch individual complaints to helper Erwiana Sulistyaningsih broke in January. UN mechanisms. It thereby referred to its national complaint mechanisms, which human rights groups had exposed to be inadequate. Signatures were collected through the internet and on the street by the federation, Amnesty International, the Confederation of Trade Unions and Walk The Committee will issue its concluding observations and recommendations Free, a movement dedicated to ending modern slavery. around May 23rd on the OHCHR website. The government of Indonesia is

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The organisers urged the government to set up a body that would take on the Aditya was arrested by police in Denpasar in February after the family of the 14- responsibility of collecting recruitment fees from workers before distributing the year-old girl reported him to the police for raping her on several occasions last money to the recruitment agencies, preventing workers from being overcharged. year. The girl is currently seven months’ pregnant. It is not clear why the girl or her family did not report the rapes at the time they happened, around October View the video: http://www.ntd.tv/en/news/world/asia- last year. pacific/20140429/134753-alleged-maid-abuser-appears-in-hong-kong-court.html Dewa Puspa Adnyana, the sole judge presiding over the trial, ruled on Sexual violence Wednesday that Aditya should serve 18 months in jail, including time already served. He cited as mitigating circumstances the fact that Aditya had no criminal record and had “promised not to repeat the offense.” The judge also noted Lenient verdict Aditya’s “goodwill offer” to marry the victim and “be responsible for the baby” — The Jakarta Globe, 01-05-2014 a notion that the girl’s family has vehemently rejected.

A court in Bali has drawn the wrath of child protection activists over its relatively Before the start of Wednesday’s hearing, the judge also raised eyebrows for not lenient 18-month jail sentence for a rapist after he offered to marry the 14-year- clearing the courtroom of all reporters, as required in hearings involving minors. old victim. Komang Aditya Pratama, 19, should have faced a minimum of three “OK, you can stay, but don’t crowd the place,” he told the reporters in years in prison, and up to 15, under the charges brought against him from the attendance. 2002 Child Protection Law, after he raped the girl multiple times last year. Prosecutors said they were satisfied with the final ruling, arguing that Aditya was “This is not right at all and completely inappropriate,” Siti Sapura, an activist from 18 at the time he raped the victim and thus should be treated as a minor, for the Denpasar Child Protection Institute, or LPA, who has followed the case from which he would only face half the sentence prescribed in the law. Under the beginning, told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday. She lambasted the judges at Indonesian law, however, anyone 18 or older is not considered a minor. the Denpasar District Court for failing to uphold the spirit of the child protection The ruling sparked a commotion in the courtroom as the victim’s brother walked law, and accused prosecutors of “playing cat and mouse” to keep the victim’s up to the judge’s table to question the leniency of the sentence. Other members family in the dark about the charges and punishment they were seeking against of the family later tried to mob Aditya as he was escorted out of the room. the defendant. Siti also questioned why the verdict hearing on Wednesday was Prosecutors have said they will not mount an appeal for a longer sentence. open to the press, in clear violation of the law, which requires trials involving minors to be heard behind closed doors.

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Corruption in state institutions tax [director generals]”. Hadi, recently named a suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in a decade-old tax case, served as the director general for taxation at Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance between 2001 and 2006. KPK investigates alleged money laundering by former The 2006 diplomatic cable, published by Wikileaks on its website, commented on BIN head Hendropriyono his replacement as the tax director general by Darmin Nasution.

Kompas, 01-05-2014 “One long-time expatriate consultant to the MOF described Purnomo as ‘the most corrupt in a long line of corrupt tax DGs,” the cable noted. “Another The Anti-Corruption Commission KPK has started an investigation into the expatriate consultant noted that ‘Mr. Untouchable was finally toppled. Quite possible involvement of the former head of the Security Agency BIN, retired amazing’.” Hadi, according to the cable, had a poor reputation among the general A.M. Hendropriyono in money laundering around the procurement of business community, with corruption in tax administration being one of the more dictionaries in cooperation with corruption suspect Anas Urbaningrum, former ubiquitous business complaints. (…) chairperson of the Partai Demokrat (the party of president SBY). For the time being the investigation is aiming at Hendropriyono as a witness for the Hadi served as a chief economic analyst at the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) prosecution. after he ended his term at the tax office. In 2009, he was sworn in as the head of the BPK. The KPK named him a suspect last month in a graft case dating back to Hendropriyono says that the BIN bought the dictionaries (of Arab, Indonesian and his term at the tax office, just a day after he announced his retirement from the English language) also to support Islamic schools (pesantren). This intention was BPK on April 20. confirmed by the deputy head of the BIN who was also interrogated by the KPK, As’ad Said Ali. He specifically named the Pesantren Krapyak near Yogyakarta as In 2004, in his capacity as the tax director general, Hadi allegedly issued a letter the source for the dictionaries. absolving Bank Central Asia — Indonesia’s largest private lender by assets — of a disputed 1999 tax obligation, illegally overriding the decision of a subordinate Leaked information on corruption by BPK head who had already rejected the appeal. Hadi is facing up to 20 years in prison as the KPK said it was charging him with abuse of his position as well as embezzlement. The Jakarta Globe, 04-05-2014 Read the whole article: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/leaked-us-cable- A leaked US diplomatic cable reveals that the US government already took note notes-ex-bpk-chiefs-notoriety-corruption/ years ago on the corrupt tendency of Indonesia’s former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) head Hadi Poernomo, calling him “the most corrupt in a long line of corrupt

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The Hambalang affair: SBY and sons? Maluku The Jakarta Globe, 02-05-2014 Arrests on 25 April Graft suspect and former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum repeated his demand on Friday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono be KontraS Public Statement, 04-05-2014 questioned as a witness in the Hambalang graft case. Komisi Untuk Orang Hilang dan Korban Tindak Kekerasan [KontraS] has received “It is very crucial to this case that Pak SBY is asked to testify,” Anas told information in relation to the arrests of 10 people for participating in a peaceful journalists as he arrived at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) activity on 25 April 2014. The 10 people are: Simon Saija, Frans Sinmiasa (who headquarters in Jakarta for yet another interview concerning his role in the graft- was wounded by a bayonet), Izack Leatemia, Buce Manuhutu, Alex Karel, Aldo, ridden construction of the Rp 2.5 trillion ($218 million) sports center in Bogor. Paul Krikof, Niko Souisa, Ferdinan Patti and Ois Labobar. The ten were arrested in Anas has been charged with graft and money laundering in relation to the case. connection with a peaceful demonstration on the occasion of the commemoration of the Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS). They carried RMS and “Until now, though, Pak SBY has never been questioned as a witness; no United Nations flags and were singing songs. KontraS demands that their rights investigators have come to him to asked him to testify,” he added. Anas has be respected, referring to their right to freedom of expression, to legal council accused both Yudhoyono and his youngest son, Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, of and the right to fair trial and that they will not be tortured. some vague involvement in a case believed to have cost the state up to Rp 463 billion in losses.

Anas himself has been accused of receiving Rp 2.2 billion from the project contractor, state-owned builder Adhi Karya, in commission fees — some of which he allegedly distributed to a number of Democratic Party members in order to help him win the chairman post during a party congress in 2010.