PTQ9141 RELEASED IN FULL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 JAKART 02831 01 OF 02 PTQ9141 210122Z AMAJ -01 ACQ-01 ACDA-08 ACDE-OO AID-OO DINT-OO DODE-OO DOEE-OO SRPP-OO DS-OO FBIE-OO UTED-OO HHS-01 H-01 SSA-01 IO-OO L-01 ADS-OO NSAE-OO NSCE-OO OPIC-01 PA-OO PRS-OO OMB-01 PM-OO TRSE-OO SP-OO SSO-OO SS-OO STR-OO PMB-OO DSCC-OO PRM-01 DRL-04 G-OO 030W ------------------404E37 210122Z 38 R 210120Z MAY 98 ZDK FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 1657 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY TOKYO USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI INFO E34 UNCLASSIFIED LOG-OO CIAE-OO ED-01 INR-OO OIC-02 CIO-OO USIE-OO SAS-OO UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 JAKARTA 002831 USCINCPAC FOR FPA AMB TEARE DEPARTMENT FOR TFID01 S S-O OPERATIONS CENTER EAP PIMBS FROM AMCONGEN SURABAYA 0097 E O 12958 N A UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 JAKART 02831 01 OF 02 210122Z TAGS PGOV PHUM SOC I SCUL CASC PINR ID UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY CHARLES E LAHIGUERA DATE CASE ID 06 DEC 2006 200503180 UNCLASSIFIED CA-02 EB-OO TEDE-OO OCS-03 P-OO T-OO NFAT-OO UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT TFIDOI SITUATION IN EASTERN INDONESIA MAY 20 1 SUMMARY STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUED MAY 20 IN SURABAYA AT SURABAYA UNIVERSITY UBAYA THE NOVEMBER 10TH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ITS AND THE TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE IKIP DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY PEACEFUL THE STUDENTS DID NOT LEAVE CAMPUS PO ICE AND MILITARY IN SURABAYA LATER SOUGHT TO CHECK UNAUTHORIZED CONVOYS OFF CAMPUS IN YOGYAKARTA THOUSANDS GATHERED AT THE SULTAN r S PALACE FOR AN ADDRESS AND DEMONSTRATION CONTACTS REPORTED CROWDS GATHERING IN THE MALIOBORO AREA AND WERE WARNED BY POLICE TO EXPECT VIOLENCE LATER IN THE DAY IN UJUNG PANDANG MASSIVE CROWDS GATHERED IN THE CITY CENTER FOR A DEMONSTRATION CALLING ON PRESIDENT SUHARTO TO RESIGN AS OF 1500 DEMONSTRATORS WERE CIRCLING THE CITY IN CONVOYS BUT THERE HAD BEEN NO VIOLENCE THE SEMARANG AIRPORT MAY BE CLOSED THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATED PEACEFULLY IN SOLO 1000 LABORERS DEMONSTRATED MAY 19 IN FRONT OF THE SURABAYA OFFICE OF THE SPSI DEMONSTRATING STUDENTS WERE BEATEN BY MILITARY FORCES OUTSIDE AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY IN SURABAYA THE AFTERNOON OF MAY 19 TWENTY FOUR WERE INJURED THREE OF THEM SERIOUSLY END SUMMARY 2 IN SURABAYA ON MAY 19 STUDENT DEMONSTRATORS WERE BEATEN BY MILITARY FORCES AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO CONTINUE STREET PROTESTS TWENTY-FOUR STUDENTS WERE INJURED THREE OF THEM SERIOUSLY STUDENTS HAD REPORTEDLY RECEIVED POLICE PERMISSION TO CIRCLE THE AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY UNAIR CAMPUS ON MOTORCYCLES AS THEY DEMONSTRATED AFTER SEVERAL TRIPS AROUND THE CAMPUS THE POLICE ASKED THE STUDENTS TO RETURN TO CAMPUS WHEN THE STUDENTS REFUSED THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY KOSTRAD TROOPS WHO IMMEDIATELY BEGAN BEATING THE DEMONSTRATORS WITH RATTAN STAFFS STUDENTS UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 JAKART 02831 01 OF 02 210122Z FLED INTO THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND WERE NOT PURSUED THREE STUDENTS RECEIVED SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES THAT REQUIRED THEM TO BE ADMITTED TO INTENSIVE CARE FOURTEEN WERE TREATED AND RELEASED ONE SOLDIER WHO WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED WHEN HE FELL OUT OF HIS TRUCK WAS JEERED BY STUDENTS WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT HE HAS NOT REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS 3 WE DROVE THROUGH THE SCENE OF THE ATTACK SOON AFTERWARDS WE SAW A SIZEABLE MILITARY PRESENCE WAITING NEAR CAMPUS INCLUDING UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED TWO TRUCKS FULL OF SOLDIERS AND ANOTHER GROUP ON MOTORCYCLES BUT TRAFFIC WAS MOVING SMOOTHLY WE HAVE HEARD REPORTS THAT STUDENT DEMONSTRATORS WERE PUSHED BY MILITARY TRUCKS ON MAY 18 NO SERIOUS INJURIES WERE REPORTED 4 ALSO ON MAY 19 CLOSE TO 1000 LABORERS DEMONSTRATED AT THE OFFICE OF THE OFFICIAL LABOR UNION SPSI THE WORKERS LED BY THE PROVINCIAL CHAIRMAN OF THE SPSI DEMANDED SUHARTO'S RESIGNATION AND AN END TO COLLUSION CORRUPTION AND NEPOTISM THE DEMONSTRATION BROKE UP PEACEFULLY - AT ONE SHOE FACTORY IN THE RUNGKUT INDUSTRIAL AREA THE OWNERS WERE REPORTEDLY HELD FOR TEN HOURS BY SCORES OF MOSTLY FEMALE WORKERS DEMANDING UNPAID WAGES POLICE FREED THE OWNERS WITHOUT VIOLENCE 5 ON MAY 20 DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUED AS STUDENTS FROM AROUND SURABAYA GATHERED ON THE CAMPUSES OF UBAYA ITS AND IKIP THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS EXPECTED DID NOT MATERIALIZE AS MANY STUDENTS FRIGHTENED BY THE INCIDENT AT UNAIR THE PREVIOUS DAY STAYED AWAY STUDENT LEADERS AT UBAYA TOLD US THAT THE RECTOR HAD REQUESTED THEY REMAIN ON CAMPUS AT EACH CAMPUS A FEW THOUSAND DEMONSTRATORS HELD FREE SPEECH FORUMS AND SANG UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 04 JAKART 02831 01 OF 02 210122Z NATIONALIST SONGS THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON AT IKIP A SMALL GROUP OF RADICAL STUDENTS ATTEMPTED TO MOVE OFF CAMPUS THEY WERE CONFRONTED BY POLICE AND RETURNED TO CAMPUS THROUGHOUT THE CITY SANCTIONED DEMONSTRATIONS BROKE UP IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON AND STUDENTS LEFT CAMPUS IN SMALL GROUPS MILITARY UNITS ARE BEING REENFORCED WE UNDERSTAND AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS FROM SINGOSARI ARE IN SURABAYA PEMUDA PANCASILA PROFESSIONAL THUGS CLOSE TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PEMODA PANCA MANGGA UNITS YOUTH GROUPS TIED TO THE ABRI AND BANSER THE PARAMILITARY WING OF THE NU ARE ALSO SUPPORTING THE MILITARY 6 CONVOYS OF STUDENTS AND YOUTH BEGAN FORMING MID-AFTERNOON FROM CAMPUSES SUCH AS AIRLANGGA IKIP AND UBAYA THE CONVOYS WERE JOINED BY OTHERS FROM SOCIETY IN GENERAL MILITARY FORCES ACTED QUICKLY TO BREAK UP THESE SMALL GROUPS AND PURSUED THEM AT HIGH SPEED WITH TRUCKS AND SHOOTING INTO THE AIR A SIMILAR INCIDENT WAS REPORTED AT 1420 AT UBAYA AT 1530 WE RECEIVED A REPORT OF A CONVOY OF 1000 STUDENTS YOUTHS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS HEADING AWAY FROM ITS AND UNAIR TOWARDS THE CENTER OF TOWN WE UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED SAW ONE CONVOY OF MORE 3000 PEOPLE PASS THE CONSULATE AT 1615 THROUGH THE -MAIN CITY STREET NORTH AND TURN BACK SOUTH THE MAIN BANNER SAID STRUGGLE FOR REFORMATION AND SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE THE ATMOSPHERE WAS CELEBRATIVE THE MILITARY APPEARED TO BE ATTEMPTING TO CHANNEL IT ONTO THE MAIN STREETS WE HEARD WARNING SHOTS COMMENT THE CONVOYS RESEMBLED THE BOISTEROUS DEMONSTRATIONS DURING LAST MAY'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN UNCLASSIFIED NNNNPTQ9152 UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 JAKART 02831 02 OF 02 PTQ9152 210121Z ACDA-08 ACDE-OO AID-OO AMAD-01 ACQ-01 DINT-OO DODE-OO DOEE-OO SRPP-OO DS-OO H-01 SSA-01 FBIE-OO UTED-OO HHS-01 10-00 ADS-OO NSAE-OO NSCE-OO L-01 PRS - OO OMB-01 OPIC-01 PA-OO PM-OO STR-OO TRSE-OO SP-OO SSO-OO SS-OO DRL-04 G-OO PMB-OO DSCC-OO PRM-01 030W ------------------404E98 210127Z 38 R 210120Z MAY 98 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 1658 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSYTOKYO USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI INFO LOG-OO CIAE-OO ED-01 INR-OO OIC-02 CIO-OO USIE-OO SAS-OO UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 02 JAKARTA 002831 UNCLASSIFIED CA-02 EB-OO TEDE-OO OCS-03 P-OO T-OO NFAT-OO UNCLASSIFIED USCINCPAC FOR FPA AMB TEARE DEPARTMENT FOR TFID1 S S-O OPERATIONS CENTER EAP PIMBS FROMAMCONGEN SURABAYA 0097 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 JAKART 02831 02 OF 02 210121Z E O 1295 8 N A TAGQ PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL CASC PINR ID SUBJECT TFIDOI SITUATION IN EASTERN INDONESIA MA 20 7 IN YOGYAKARTA TWO MAJOR DEMONSTRATQONS WERE HELD ONE IN THE MORNING OF ABOUT 5000 AT THE GADJAH MAnA UNIVERSITY DURING WHICH THE SULTAN SPOKE AND ONE LATER AT THE KRATON SULTAN f S PALACE THAT SWELLED TO ABOUT 500 000 STUDENTS FROM ALL REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES GATHERED AT THE SULTAN f S PALACE WHERE THE SULTAN GAVE AN ADDRESS IN SUPPORT OF REFORM BY 1330 THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS WERE GATHERING IN THE MALIOBORO DISTRICT POLICE WERE WARNING FACTORY AND SHOP OWNERS THAT STUDENT CONVOYS WOULD ATTACK NON-PRIBUMI PLACES OF BUSINESS AN ACADEMIC CONTACT DISMISSED THIS AS SCARE-MONGERING NO VIOLENCE WAS REPORTED DURING THE DAY 8 SOLO CONTACTS REPORTED THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS DEMONSTRATED IN FRONT OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE STUDENTS RETURNED TO THEIR UNIVERSITIES IN THE AFTERNOON CAR LOADS OF PROTESTORS PASSING THROUGH THE STREETS OF' THE BUSINESS DISTRICT WERE CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE MILITARY STREETS INTO MOST RESIDENTIAL AREAS WERE BARRICADED AND GUARDED BY CIVILIANS ALL BANKS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REOPEN BEFORE MAY 25 ONE AMERICAN TOLD US TWENTY OF HIS WORKERS WERE LIVING WITH HIM AND HIS BALINESE WIFE IN ORDER TO ASSURE HIS SAFETY FIFTY WORKERS GUARDED HIS FACTORY HIS BUSINESS HAD BEEN SPARED EARLIER IN THE UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED WEEK WHEN HIS STAFF WAS ABLE TO PROVE TO LOOTERS THAT IS WAS UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 JAKART 02831 02 OF 02 210121Z OWNED BY A NON-CHINESE INDONESIAN THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF BURNING ORLOOTING IN SOLO SINCE SATURDAY 9 IN UJUNGPANDANG LOCAL SOURCES REPORTED THAT MORE THAN NE HUNDRED THOUSAND GATHERED AT 0800 IN THQ CENTER OF THE CITY TO PROTEST NOTE THIS UPDATES THE SITREP WHICH REPORTED NO MASSIVE CRWDS END NOTE AT 1100 DEMONSTRATORS BEGAN TO CONVOY AROUND THE CITY BY 1330 THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF VIOLENCE OR DESTRUCTION A RELIABLE HUMAN RIGHTS CONTACT TOLD US CHINESEINDONESIANS WERE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMONSTRATION CLOSE TO 1000 DID SO IN PALU CENTRAL SULAWESI 5000 STUDENTS DEMONSTRATED AND MARCHED OFF CAMPUS TO TVRI AND THE DPRD MILITARY UNITS TIGHTLY GUARDED TVRI BUT ALLOWED THE DEMONSTRATORS TO ENTER THE DPRD MANADO WAS CALM AND REPORTED NO DEMONSTRATIONS 10 CONAGENT BALI REPORTS THAT A FEW THOUSAND DEMONSTRATED AT UDAYANA THE LARGEST UNIVERSITY IN DENPASAR BUT THAT STUDENTS REMAINED ON CAMPUS A SMALL GROUP PROTESTED AT THE DPRD WITHOUT INCIDENT MILITARY IS GUARDING KEY BUILDINGS AND INTERSECTIONS BUT TOURIST AREAS ARE CALM AND INCIDENT FREE 11 AS OF 1630 LOCAL TIME WE ARE AWARE OF NO INJURIES OR DIRECT CLASHES ON MAY 20 BETWEEN DEMONSTRATORS AND AUTHORITIES IN THE SURABAYA CONSULAR DISTRICT CONVOYS HOWEVER ARE STILL CONTINUING HERE AND MOST LIKELY IN YOGYAKARTA AND POSSIBLY UNJUNG PANDANG AND ELSEWHERE PIERCE ROY UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu