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Indonesian Diaspora regrets attack on Yogyakarta meeting
Indonesians living abroad under the grouping, the Indonesian Diaspora, have signed a petition asking law enforcers to bring members of the Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) to court over last week's attack on a meeting organized by relatives of victims of the 1965 communist purge in Yogyakarta
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ndonesians living abroad under the grouping, the Indonesian Diaspora,have signed a petition asking law enforcers to bring members of the Anti-CommunistFront (FAKI) to court over last week's attack on a meeting organized by relatives of victims of the 1965 communist purge in Yogyakarta.
'Firm measures should be taken against the head of FAKI and its members, for they cited hate speech, broke up a meeting and were violent toward meeting participants,' the Indonesian Diaspora stated in a press release sent to The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
The diaspora stated that it had sent the petition to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and all state institution leaders. It also urged the police to remain impartial and arrest the attackers to uphold justice.
Figures like senior journalist Aboeprijadi Santoso, who currently resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; researcher and political scientist Burhanuddin Muhtadi, who is currently pursuing a PhD in Canberra, Australia; Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) scholar Ahmad Sahal, who is studying toward a doctoral degree in the US, and campaigner Nursyahbani Katjasungkana are among the petition's 137 signatories.
Dozens of FAKI members disrupted a meeting in Yogyakarta at which the families of the victims of 1965 were gathered and proceeded to and attack some of them, injuring three people. FAKI head Burhanuddin ZR argued that the meeting had a hidden agenda to resurrect the communism in Indonesia and, therefore, needed to be dispersed.(dic)
