PRD Member Shot Dead By Military In Lampung
Media Alert from Asiet
Action in Solidarity with
Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET)
Prd Member Shot Dead
By Military In Lampung
KPP-PRD - September 28, 1999
Today, a number of organisations in Lampung, South
Sumatra, including
the Lampung University Student Council
(DMUL), the People's Democratic
Party (PRD), KMPPL and
the Lampung Peasants Council, held an action in
front of
the Kedaton Military District Command (Kodim). They
demanded
the withdrawal of the new Emergency Security
Bill and the dual function of
the armed forces and that
armed forces chief General Wiranto be tried in
an
international court.
The demonstration was met with
repression by the military and as a
result, a clash
occurred at 11.23am with shooting continuing
until
12.15pm. At least two students were killed and
scores seriously wounded.
One of the two who died was
Jusuf Rizal, a DMUL activists and a member
of the PRD.
The other victim has not yet been identified.
At 12.23pm,
the Bandar Lampung University was attacked by troops
from
the Bandar Lampung Kedaton Sub-district Military
Command (Koramil). A
number of students were shot.
At
2pm, troops again attacked the campus shooting
indiscriminately
forcing thousand of students to flee.
The number of victims is expected to
increase
significantly. The troops also entered lecture theaters
and
destroyed what they found inside.
At 4.30 troops
and police reentered the campus, chasing and
beating
people, shooting and destroying a number of
buildings (Building C and F and
the university Rector's
building). Ten motor vehicles were also destroyed.
As of 5pm, the number of victims had reached 40:
- Nine shot
with live ammunition or rubber bullets
- One dead
- 29
suffering injuries as a result of being beaten
- 11 being
treated at the Abdul Meoloek hospital, two in a
critical
condition and in a coma.
- 13 are being
treated at the Advent hospital
- 11 have been arrested by
the Bandar Lampung police
- 5 were abducted in a Red
Kijang vehicle number plate B 700 XX. Their
whereabouts
are unknown.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF VICTIMS
1. Dedi Sukasma
(22), UBL student, fractured scull, currently
being
treated at the Abdul Meoloek pubic hospital.
2.
Yusuf Rizal (23), Unila student and PRD member, shot in the
neck,
deceased.
3. Ifan (22), from West Java, suffered
head wounds and currently being
treated at the Abdul
Meoloek public hospital.
4. Budi Wahyudi (22), UBL
student, suffered head wounds and currently
being treated
at the Abdoel Moeloek public hospital.
5. A. Rozak (22),
Unila student, suffered head wounds and currently
being
treated at the Abdul Meoloek public hospital.
6. Agung
Prasetyo (20), UBL student, shot in the thigh and
currently
being treated at the Abdul Meoloek public
hospital.
7. Dika Rinaldi (24), UBL student, shot in the
back and currently being
treated at the Abdul Meoloek
public hospital.
8. Erlan (24), UBL student, suffered head
wounds and currently being
treated at the Abdul Meoloek
public hospital.
9. Fitriansah (25), UBL student, shot in
the left shoulder and currently
being treated at the
Abdul Meoloek public hospital.
10. Supardi, UBL security
guard, gun shot wounds and currently being
treated at the
Abdul Meoloek public hospital.
11. Zaidatul Fikri (23),
Unila photographer, gun shot wounds, is in a
critical
condition and currently being treated at the Abdul
Meoloek
public hospital.
12. Retno Supriadi (24), Unila
student, shot in the stomach, is in a
critical condition
and currently being treated at the Abdul Meoloek
public
hospital.
Notes:
UBL: Bandar Lampung University Unila = Lampung University
The UBL campus is located in front of
Kodim Kedaton, the security forces
involved in the
shootings were from Kodim and a Korem unit called the
"Black
Garuda" (Garuda Hitam).
[Translated by James
Balowski, ASIET Publications and
Information
Officer.]
ONE DEAD IN FRESH INDONESIAN STUDENT PROTEST
Agence France Presse - September 28, 1999
Jakarta-Protests against a new state security bill in
Indonesia claimed
another life Tuesday when security
forces shot dead a student in clashes in
the Sumatra
island city of Bandar Lampung, hospitals and reports said.
At
least 27 others were injured in the protest, which
followed the deaths of at
least seven people, one a
student, in similar protests in Jakarta last
week.
Tuesday's victim was shot dead in front of the
Bandar Lampung
University, where the clash broke out
after security officials attempted to
disperse hundreds
of students trying to march to the local
military
headquarters, said Alira of the Bandar Lampung
Legal Aid Institute.
Alira could not give further details
saying she had yet to get a full
report from the members
of the institute's team gathering data on
the
incident.
But she said the students had started to
march from Lampung University
and had passed the Bandar
Lampung University where they were joined by
hundreds
more students, when the clash took place.
"A male student
was admitted here this morning. He was already dead
on
arrival," an employee of the emergency ward of the
Abdul Muluk hospital in
Bandar Lampung said by telephone.
He could not give further details but said
11 other
students were also brought to the hospital with various
injuries.
Hospitals in Bandar Lampung contacted by
telephone said at least 27
people were injured and rushed
to the hospitals, including one in
critical condition
with a fractured skull and at least five with
gunshot
wounds.
The state Antara news agency identified
the dead student as Muhamad
Yusuf Rizal, 22, a student of
the faculty of social and political
sciences at Lampung
University.
Rizal was the second student to die in
protests against the security
bill which was passed by
the parliament last Thursday.
Two days of massive
demonstrations against the bill in Jakarta left
seven
people dead, including a police officer, and a student who
was
shot by soldiers late Friday. More than 100 others
were injured in
running clashes in the
capital.
President B.J. Habibie, citing the bloodshed,
suspended his ratification of
the bill until further
notice. Antara said the Bandar Lampung clash broke
out
when a thick cordon of police and soldiers barred the way
for the
student march at Bandar Lampung University.
The
student protestors, who had intended to march to the
Lampung
military command, were also demanding the
military account for the death of
the student in
Jakarta.
A local journalist said the students were
negotiating their passage with
officers there when a shot
was fired at close range and killed Rizal.
In the ensuing
panic, students began to throw stones or anything
they
could find, while the security forces fired more
shots and teargas. The
clash, which broke out close to
noon only subsided after dusk, the
journalist
said.
Antara quoted Lampung military spokesman Captain
Muhammad Sufi as saying at
least for four security
personnel were injured in the clash and were rushed
to
the military hospital. Sufi denied there were bodies of
other dead
students at the military hospital.
Alira
said some students had reported three deaths, while a
city
telephone operator said he had heard several
telephone conversations
that spoke of five killed. But
none of the other deaths could be
immediately confirmed,
Alira said.
Despite calls by students and rights activists
calling on the government to
scrap the state security
bill, Habibie has said the delay in ratification is
only
to allow time for the public to study its merits over a 1959
law it is
to replace.
Critics of the security bill say
it would give a military accused of
mass human-rights
violations across Indonesia, including in East
Timor,
sweeping
powers.
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