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> From : "gn gartenberg" <calsolidarity@hotmail.com>
> Date : Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:37:01 PST
OPEN LETTER OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDONESIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY STUDENT MOVEMENT
19 November 1998
We wish to express our sorrow and condolences to the victims of violent
Indonesian military repression carried out in the name of economic
stability and "democracy" by the present transitional regime of
President Habibie. Shooting and beating unarmed, non-violent
demonstrators cannot be blithely categorized as a side effect of a
transition to a more open Indonesian society. A number of people were
killed and hundreds more, are in, or have required treatment at Jakarta
hospitals. University and high school students are among the dead, and
among the hundreds of injured, a six year old girl is reported to be in
critical condition after being shot in the head by a "stray" bullet.
Given the present climate of discontent and violent fragmentation, it is
unfortunate that Indonesia has been prevented by remnants of the old
regime from creating a provisional consortium of popular leadership to
gently ease a transition to free and fair elections. Post Suharto
invocations of the Indonesian Constitution have largely involved thinly
veiled efforts to maintain power and engineer the future to accord as
closely as possible to the familiar New Order shape.
The employment of repressive force on an insecure, embattled, and
impoverished populace is an inappropriate response to legitimate demands
for representative government. The restorationist fantasies of a small
group of Suharto era elite figures are endangering the future of the
Indonesian Republic. Terror and intimidation tactics are not the tools
of democratic governance. How can democracy grow in a climate of fear?
The Habibie/Wiranto led Indonesian state apparatus must be held
accountable for their actions. Thus, in solidarity, we join other
members of the world academic community, and the public at large, in
giving full support to the Indonesian student movement. We are in full
accord with Indonesian student demands for total reform of the
Indonesian state by ending the military's dual-function role in
socio-political affairs.
Specifically, we unequivocally support, and call on others to echo and
advance, the following Indonesian student demands:
1. Formation of a Transitional Ruling Presidium composed of popular
leaders and influential figures to guide Indonesia to the peaceful
establishment of a demilitarized, civil democracy.
2. Establishment of standards of clean governance and accountable,
transparent leadership that are responsive to, and advance, the
aspirations of the Indonesian public.
3. An immediate end to the socio-political role of the Indonesian
military, or dwifungsi ABRI, and an immediate halt to Indonesian
military operations in Timor, Aceh, and Irian Jaya.
4. Immediate release of all political prisoners held by the Indonesian
government including, but not limited to, Budiman Sudjatmiko, Dita
Sari and Xanana Gusmao. Immediate repeal of the political laws of 1985.
5. Opposition to all attempts to foment chaos and influence Indonesian
public opinion through violence, racism, ethnocentrism, or religious
intolerance.
6. Lifting of the ban on all publications outlawed for political reasons
under the Suharto dictatorship.
7. Immediate recognition of the people of Timor Loro Sae's rights of
self determination
Thank you,
1. Gary Nathan Gartenberg, PhD Candidate
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
2. Ray Chandrasekara, PhD Candidate
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
3. Julie Shackford-Bradley, PhD Candidate
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
4. Kevin Dixon, Graduate Student
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
5. Brandon Spars, Graduate Student
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
6. Juliet Lee, PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
7. Professor Peter Dale Scott (Emeritus)
Department of English
University of California at Berkeley
8. Professor R. P. Goldman
Sarah Kailath Professor in India Studies
Professor of Sanskrit and Chairman,Center for South Asia Studies
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
9. Professor Charles Schwartz (Emeritus)
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
10. Edith Turner
Lecturer in Anthropology
University of Virginia
11. Ben Abel
Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
12. Professor Rita Smith Kipp
Department of Anthropology
Kenyon College
13. Professor Joseph Errington
Anthropology and East Asian Languages & Literatures
Yale University
14. Professor Jeffrey A. Winters
Department of Politics
Northwestern University
15. Gert de Jong
Marine Biologist and former researcher in Indonesia
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
16. Dr. Jim Hagen
Population Research Institute
Penn State University
17. David Zimmerman
Independent Anthropologist
Former Volunteers in Asia teacher in Vietnam
18. Syed Faiz Ali
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
19. Patricia B. Henry, Associate Professor
Indonesian Language & Literature
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Northern Illinois University
19. Lisa Brooten, Graduate Student
School of Telecommunications
Ohio University
20. Emily Jindra, Undergraduate student
Ohio University Free Burma Coalition
21. Professor Elizabeth Fuller Collins
Department of Philosophy and Southeast Asian Studies Program
Ohio University
22. Naoko Yamada, Graduate Student
Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Ohio University
23. Dr. William Collins
Acting President
Center For Advanced Study
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
24. Ben Wirtz
Student/ Photojournalist
Ohio University
25. Dr. Daniel T. Sicular
Alumni, Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley
26. Elna Brunckhorst, M.A.
Alumni, Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley
27. Cheryl Fralick
Alumni, Virginia Polytechnical and State University
28. Dildar Gartenberg, M.L.S.
Alumni, Department of Library Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
29. Robert H. Sicular Jr.
Actor, Berkeley, California
30. Mary Letterii, Consultant
San Francisco, CA
31. Professor Rene T.A. Lysloff
Department of Music (Ethnomusicology)
University of California, Riverside
32. Professor Martino Traxler
Visiting Professor in Philosophy
Ohio University
33. Medea Benjamin
Co-Director, Global Exchange
2017 Mission St., Rm. 303
San Francisco, CA 94110
34. Professor Frederick H. Damon
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
35. Patience Epps
Graduate student, Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
36. John Herrmann
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
37. Joseph Lipten
Ph D candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
38. Professor Teju Olaniyan
Department of English
University of Virginia
39. Naznin Karim
Director, Hallpoint Ltd.
Student at Kingston University, Surrey, UK
40. Dr. Judith Becker, Professor of Musicology,
School of Music
University of Michigan
41. Elizabeth Chandra, Student
Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University
42. A. Made Tony Supriatma
Graduate Student
Department of Government
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
43. Professor John Roosa
U. of Wisconsin
Instructor in Asian History
45. Professor Ellen Contini-Morava
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
46. William H. Lockhart
Instructor and Graduate Student
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
47. Kathryn S. Quick, Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley
48. Eveline Ferretti
Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University
49. Mercedes Chavez, Graduate Student
City and Regional Planning
Cornell University
50. Larry Chavis, M.A.
Alumni, Southeast Asia Program
Cornell University
51. Professor Martin Hatch
Department of Music and Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University
52. Scott Kennedy, PhD Candidate
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
53. Mark Renner
Graduate student, Ethnomusicology
University of Washington, Seattle
* Please distribute this open statement of condolences, concern and
solidarity with the Indonesian Student's Pro-Democracy Movement to any
and all concerned parties. Government representatives, members of the
world mass media, scholars, NGO's, and the general public are all
invited to sign, publish and distribute this letter. If you wish to
sign your name to the list circulating on the internet just add your
name to the bottom and forward it on to all individuals and
organizations who are, or should be, concerned by the present crisis of
legitimacy in Indonesia.
**This letter was drafted collectively and agreed to via internet by
scholars at U.C. Berkeley and elsewhere who are deeply concerned by the
current state of affairs in Indonesia.
*** This formal, unrestricted version of this letter dated and sent
after 12:45 pm PST, 19 November 1998, and signed electronically by 52
people, corrects, supersedes, and negates all past draft versions which
have been circulated informally on the internet.
**** Sent and distributed by by SiaR Nes Agency mailing List 20 November 1998
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