E46 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 JAKART 04329 01 OF 02 PTQ7681 RELEASED IN FULL 131028Z AMAD-01 ACQ-01 ACDA-08 ACDE-OO AID-OO DINT-OO DOEE-OO SRPP-OO DS-OO EB-OO IO-OO IM-01 TEDE-OO INR-OO LAB-01 DCP-01 NSAE-OO NSCE-OO OIC-02 OMB-01 PM-OO PRS-OO P-OO SP-OO STR-OO DSCC-OO PRM-01 USIE-OO SGHD-OO PMB-OO NFAT-OO SAS-OO 025W ------------------5EB1C1 131029Z 38 R 131027Z AUG 98 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3092 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY PORT MORESBY USMISSION GENEVA SECDEF WASHDC DIA WASHDC USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI INFO LOG-OO SJ I 1EC-OO H-01 ADS-OO PA-OO T-OO G-OO ClAE-OO FBIE-OO L-01 OPIC-01 TRSE-OO DRL-04 CON F IDE N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 JAKARTA 004329 CINCPAC FOR FPA AMB SALMON E O 12356 DECL 8 13 08 TAGS PHUM PGOV PINR PREL ID SUBJECT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CALLS FOR REVIEW OF NATIONAL SECURITY DOCTRINE TO DEAL WITH SYSTEMIC ABUSES CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 JAKART 04329 01 OF 02 131028Z 1 U CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR EDMUND MCWILLIAMS REASON 1 5 D 2 SBU SUMMARY THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION HAS ISSUED A STATEJ I 1ENT CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS THE RECENT CASES OF ABRI ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN A SYSTEMATIC RATHER THAN A CASE-BY-CASE MANNER A J I 1EMBER OF THE COMMISSION ELABORATED TO US THE COMMISSION VIEW THAT ABRI ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS WAS CONTINUING NOTWITHSTANDING PUBLIC CONDEMNATION AND ON-GOING INVESTIGATIONS HE ALSO NOTED THAT ABRI CREDIBILITY WAS ERODING AS CASE AFTER CASE CAME TO LIGHT THEREFORE THE ABUSE HAD TO BE ADDRESSED AS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM THE COMMISSION IS CONTINUING WITH ITS OWN INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES IN ACEH IRIAN JAYA AND EAST UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY CHARLES E LAHIGUERA DATE CASE ID 14 JUL 2006 200502473 UNCLASSIFIED __ _ - - -- - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - _ UNCLASSIFIED TIMOR IT HAS INSISTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT PURSUE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE MAY RIOTS AND RAPES AND OPPOSES THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW o DECREE LIMITING PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS THE COMMISSION HAS ALSO REITERATED ITS INSISTENCE THAT THE GOVERNMENT DEAL JUSTLY WITH THE MEGAWATI FACTION OF THE INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- BY WITHDRAWING ITS SUPPORT OF THE RIVAL SURJADI FACTION THE COMMISSION MEMBER LAMENTED THE MILITARY COURT DECISION WHICH FOUND TWO JONIOR POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY IN THE KILLING OF FOUR STUDENTS HE ARGUED THAT TO MANY THE TWO APPEARED TO BE SCAPEGOATS FOR THE MILITARY END SUMMARY 3 U THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ISSUED A STATEMENT AUGUST 12 WHICH CALLED UPON THE GOVERNMENT TO DEVELOP A PRINCIPLED SOLUTION TO THE GROWING LIST OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE BY ABRI NOW BEING REVEALED IN THE MEDIA SPECIFICALLY THE COMMISSION URGED A FORMAL REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES RELATED TO ABRI'S NATIONAL SECURITY DOCTRINE AND OPERATIONAL TACTICS IT SAID THAT REPEATED CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 JAKART 04329 01 OF 02 131028Z VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRIAN JAYA EAST TIMOR AND ACEH AS WELL AS THE UNRESOLVED TANJUNG PRIOK AND LAMPUNG CASES DEMONSTRATED THAT RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WERE SYSTEMATIC THE COMMISSION EXPRESSED CONCERN MOREOVER THAT A CASE-BY-CASE APPROACH TO RESOLVING THESE MATTERS WOULD NOT PRECLUDE NEW CASES OF ABUSE ARISING 4 U THE COMMISSION STATEMENT READ BY COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON BERHANUDDIN LOPA SINGLED OUT IRIAN JAYA ACEH AND EAST TIMOR AS AREAS OF THE MOST SEVERE ABRI VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS THE STATEMENT CONCLUDED THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REVIEW OR COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO THESE SYSTEMATIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WHILE WELCOMING RECENT TROOP PULLBACKS AND MISSION REVISION FOR TROOPS IN ACEH IRIAN JAYA AND EAST TIMOR THE COMMISSION STATED THAT LEGAL ACTION AGAINST PERPETRATORS OF THE VIOLENCE AGAJ NST CIVILIANS WAS REQUIRED AS WELL 5 U THE COMMISSION ALSO RE-RAISED THE MATTER OF THE JULY 27 1996 GOVERNMENT ASSAULT ON THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY PDI WHICH WAS DEFENDED BY PDI CADRE LOYAL TO MEGAWATI SOEKARNOPUTRI THE STATEMENT NOTED THAT THE COMMISSION I S OCTOBER 1996 RECOMMENDATIONS HAD NOT RECE lVED A GOI RESPONSE THE COMMISSION CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT TO WITHDRAW ITS SUP ORT FOR THE UP-TO-NOW GOVERNMENT-BACKED PDI FACTION LED BY SURJADI THE COMMISSION ALSO WAS CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW LIMITATION ON DEMONSTRATIONS CLAIMING THAT IT SAW NO CRITICAL CONDITION WARRANTING SUCH A REGULATION 6 C POLCOUNS MET WITH COMMISSION MEMBER CHARLES HIMAWAN TO DISCUSS THE AUGUST 12 STATEMENT AND RECENT COMMISSION ACTIVITY UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED HlMAWAN SAID THAT THE COMMISSION HAD NO SPECIFIC PLAN BY WHICH CONFIDENTIAL JAKART 04329 01 OF 02 131028Z PAGE 04 THE GOVERNMENT COULD ADDRESS SYSTEMATIC ABUSE OF RIGHTS BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MILITARY BUT HAD SOUGHT ONLY TO MAKE THE POINT THAT A CASE-BY-CASE APPROACH TO ABRI ABUSES WOULD LEAD TO A CONTINUING LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN ABRI AMONG THE PEOPLE MOREOVER AS RECENT ABRI HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN IRIAN JAYA DEMONSTRATED SIMPLY ACCEPTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN CERTAIN CASES WOULD NOT NECESSARILY LEAD TO A BROAD IMPROVEMENT IN HOW ABRI DEALS WITH THE PEOPLE HlMAWAN ALSO SPECULATED THAT IF WlRANTO WERE COMPELLED TO PRESS FORWARD WITH AN ENDLESS LIST OF INVESTIGATIONS HE WOULD ENCOUNTER GROWING OPPOSITION TO THAT PROCESS AND ' TO HIS OWN LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE MILITARY AS AN ASIDE HE REPEATED A WIDELY HEARD RUMOR THAT WlRANTO MIGHT BE TAPPED BY HABIBIE TO BE HIS VICE PRESIDENT AT THE NOVEMBER SESSION OF THE PEOPLE'S CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY 7 C HlMAWAN ALSO QUESTIONED GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO PROCEED WITH INVESTIGATIONS THEY THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO SAY THAT THE KIDNAPPING CASE WOULD BE ENOUGH BECAUSE IT WOULD GET RID OF PRABOWO WE REMINDED THEM ADDED HlMAWAN THAT THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE RIOTING AND RAPING TOO HlMAWAN ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE INVESTIGATIONS COULD NOT ' BE COMPLETED UNLESS FO mR JAKARTA GARRISON CHIEF AND PRABOWO ALLY GENERAL SYAFRI SAMSUDDIN WERE ALSO INVESTIGATED -- ESPECIALLY FOR THE JAKARTA RIOTS WHICH TOOK PLACE ON HIS WATCH AS JAKARTA AREA COMMANDER CONFIDENTIAL END OF DOCUMENT CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO JAKART ' 04329 02 OF 02 PTQ7684 131029Z LOG OO SMEC-OO H-01 ADS-OO PA-OO T-OO G-OO ACDA-08 ACDE-OO AID-OO AMAD-01 ACQ-01 EB-OO DINT-OO DOEE-OO SRPP-OO DS-OO IM-01 TEDE-OO INR-OO IO-OO LAB-01 DCP-01 NSAE-OO NSCE-OO OIC-02 OMB-01 STR-OO PM-OO PRS-OO P-OO SP-OO USIE-OO SGHD-OO PMB-OO DSCC-OO PRM-01 NFAT-OO SAS-OO 025W ------------------5EB1CA 131029Z 38 R 131027Z AUG 98 FM MEMBASSY JAKARTA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3093 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS UNCLASSIFIED CIAB-OO FBIE-OO L-01 OPIC-01 TRSE-OO DRL-04 UNCLASSIFIED o AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBA SY PORT MORESBY USMISSION GENEVA SECDEF WASHDC DIA WASHDC USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI CON F IDE N T I A L SECTION 02 OF 02 JAKARTA 004329 CINCPAC FOR FPA AMB SALMON E O 12356 DECL 8 13 08 TAGS PHUM PGOV PINR PREL ID SUBJECT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CALLS FOR REVIEW OF NATIONAL SECURITY DOCTRINE TO DEAL WITH SYSTEMIC ABUSES CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 JAKART 04329 02 OF 02 131029Z HIMAWAN SAID HOWEVER THAT HE HAD ADVISED SINO-INDONESIANS AND OVERSEAS CHINESE COMMUNITIES THAT IN ORDER TO AVOID AN ISLAMIC BACKLASH THE RIOT-RAPE MATTER SHOULD BE PRESENTED AS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND NOT AS AN ANTI-CHINESE ATTACK HE ASSESSED THAT THE INVOLVEMENT OF NON-CHINESE SUCH AS FATHER ROMO SANDYAWAN IN THE INVESTIGATION WAS OF PARTICULAR VALUE IN STAVING OFF SUCH A BACKLASH 8 C HIMAWAN SAID THAT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION NOW HAS A COMMITTEE COMPRISING FIVE COMMISSION MEMBERS WHICH HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEVELOPING INTERNAL COMMISSION REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN ACEH EAST TIMOR AND IN IRIAN JAYA THE 'COMMISSION IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE RECENT PRESIDENTIAL DECREE LIMITING THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY THE NEW DECREE LIMITING DEMONSTRATIONS HIMAWAN NOTED THAT THE COMMISSION WOULD BE MEETING WITH THE SUPREME ADVISORY COUNCIL AND A NUMBER OF MINISTERS LATER AUGUST 13 TO PROTEST THE DECREE AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS ISSUED AS A DECREE RATHER THAN SENT TO PARLIAMENT FOR CONSIDERATION AS A LAW SEPARATELY A MEMBER OF THE SUPREME ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 13 CONFIRMED THAT THERE WOULD BE DISCUSSION OF THE DECREE AS WELL AS OF DEVELOPMENTS IN ACEH ANP IRIAN JAYA INVOLVING THE COUNCIL THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND A NUMBER OF MINISTERS THE COUNCIL MEMBER SAID THAT IN HIS VIEW THE REASON THE DECREE WAS ISSUED WAS THAT THE PARLIAMENT WOULD NOT HAVE AGREED TO PASS IT AS A LAW 9 C HIMAWAN LAMENTED THE MILITARY COURT DECISION ANNOUNCED AUGUST 12 FINDING TWO JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY IN THE TRISAKTI STUDENT MURDER TRIAL ALTHOUGH THE SENTENCE WERE LIGHT CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED o PAGE 03 JAKART 04329 02 OF 02 131029Z t TEN MONTHS AND FOUR MONTHS IMPRISONMENT HIMAWAN SAID BOTH WERE VICTIMS OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS THERE IS -WIDESPREAD BELIEF HE SAID THAT THE MILITARY PROBABLY KOPASSUS WAS INVOLVED IN THE KILLINGS NOTE EIGHT MORE DEFENDANTS ALL POLICE ARE SCHEDULED TO BE TRIED FOR THE TRISAKTI KILLINGS END NOTE OWENS CONFIDENTIAL END OF DOCUMENT UNCLASSIFIED This 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