[Onthebarricades] Fw: [asap] TNI removes students and farmers protesting Pasuruan shootings

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From: James Balowski 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:05 PM
Subject: [asap] TNI removes students and farmers protesting Pasuruan shootings


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TNI removes students and farmers protesting 
Pasuruan shootings

Detik.com - June 4, 2007

Triono Wahyu Sudibyo, Salatiga -- Around 250 
students and farmers from the Central Java city of 
Salatiga were disappointed after being 'removed' 
before having a chance to express long list of 
grievances over the shooting incident in the Central 
Java regency Pasuruan on May 30. The demonstration 
was to have been held at a local sub-district 
military command (Korem).

Initially, the coalition of protesters from the 
Peoples and Students Farmers Concern Alliance 
(ARMPP), which is made up of the Indonesian Islamic 
Student Movement (PMII), the Central Java Peasants 
Organisation (OTJT), the Indonesian Youth Front for 
Struggle (FPPI), the Qariyah Thoyibbah United 
Peasants Association (SPPQT) and various non-
government organisations, started the action at the 
State College of Islamic Religious Studies campus on 
Jl. Teuku Umar.

>From the campus they held a three-kilometer march to 
Korem via Jl. Jalan Diponegoro. Scores of police 
officers escorted the rally and traffic on the main 
street in Salatiga slowed to a crawl.

Upon arriving at Korem, scores of officers from the 
Salatiga District Police Crowd Control Unit (Dalmas) 
were ready to intercept them. Action coordinator 
Imam Rozy invited a number of demonstrators to hold 
a theatrical action depicting the TNI's brutality 
against farmers.

Shortly after two coalition representatives had 
finished giving speeches, all of a sudden a TNI 
officer approached the crowd and asked if they had a 
permit to hold the action. Failing to receive a 
satisfactory answer, the officer then ordered TNI 
personnel to 'remove' the demonstrators.

The demonstrators however remained clam. Under the 
leadership of Rozy, they proceed to hold a prayer 
for the dead (shalat gaib) to pray for those killed 
in Pasuruan. At around 11.40 am, less than a minute 
after finishing the prayer, the demonstrators 
disbanded peacefully and left Korem.

The demonstrators then moved off to the offices of 
the Salatiga Regional House of Representatives 
escorted by scores of Dalmas personnel and traffic 
police. During the action the demonstrators demanded 
that the government fully investigate the shooting 
at Pasuruan, uphold civil supremacy and rejected the 
resurgence of militarism ala the New Order regime of 
former President Suharto. "Farmers provide an 
important service to us all, why must they be 
oppressed", said Rozy. (try/djo)

[Translated by James Balowski.]

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