華人の強姦事件を調査していた女性が殺された。
1998年5月14日と15日に起きた華人女性への強姦事件をボランティアで調査していた女性が自宅で殺された。Martadinata Haryono（愛称”イタ”）が自宅で殺されてるところを発見した人は父だった。10月9日の事だった。体には10箇所の刺し傷、首は殆ど根元から取れそうな位に深く切られ、即死状態だったと言う（声帯も切られているので当然声が出ない）。手は電気コードで縛られ、犯人は隣人の少年。彼女は5月の強姦に関わる確固たる証拠を入手したので、母親と二人で米国の人権保護団体で証言をする予定だった。まさしく渡航直前の犯行であった。また妙な事件で、何だか仕組まれた感じがするのは何故だろう。当然彼女の持っていた証拠品」は全て警察に押収され、無くなっていた。おまけに今度は彼女が「薬中毒」、「売春」で乱れた生活をしていたとの記事が書かれた。非常に奇異な殺人で早すぎるくらいの犯人逮捕、話がうますぎる故に非常に臭い、政府に都合が良い事件など様々な要素が絡む。もっと「臭い」事は小生が更に調査した時に追加致します。
October 10, 1998
JAKARTA,
Indonesia (AP) -- A teen-age activist who was counseling women raped during Indonesia's riots in May was found stabbed to death in her home, police said today. The body of 18-year-old Martadinata Haryono, a high school senior, was found in her bedroom Friday night by her father. She had stab wounds and a slashed neck.
Several activists helping the victims or investigating the cases have complained that they have received death threats. But Maj. Gen. Pol Noegroho Djajoesman, the chief of Jakarta police, was quoted by the official Antara news agency as saying that police have no evidence that the slaying was connected to her work.
Police said Haryono was the first volunteer to be killed and that her home in downtown Jakarta was not robbed. It was not known if she had received threats. Antara quoted the doctor who conducted the autopsy as saying that preliminary examinations showed signs of a sexual assault.
`There were 10 wounds on her body and her head was almost cut off at the throat,'' Dr. Mun'im Idris was quoted as saying. Police refused to comment on the report.
Haryono and her mother, Wiwin, worked for Volunteers for Humanity, one of several groups counseling ethnic Chinese victims of the unrest. Colleagues said Haryono, who also was ethnic Chinese, was planning to travel to the United States with her mother and some victims prepared to testify about the rapes to a human rights group.
"This was so unfair. We just hope she wasn't killed because she and her mother were helping rape victims,'' said Ester Indahyani Jusuf Lubis, leader of Serambi Nusa Bangsa, a group formed in June to fight racial discrimination in Indonesia.
"People will now be afraid to tell anyone what happened during the riots. This is terrorizing for Indonesia's ethnic Chinese,'' she said.Human rights groups say at least 168 women, mostly ethnic Chinese, were raped during the unrest, which left 1,200 people dead and led to the resignation of President Suharto.
Volunteers for Humanity was one of the first groups to report that ethnic Chinese women and girls had been gang-raped during the riots. Dozens of people paid their condolences at Haryono's home today. Haryono's casket sat in one room adorned with flowers, her photograph and a crucifix. Her parents were consoled by friends in an adjoining room.
Indonesia's ethnic Chinese minority was targeted during the riots by mobs who resent the group's relative wealth during the country's crippling economic crisis. They are the country's most powerful economic group, controlling about 70 percent of its private wealth and banking sectors.
Indonesia's government set up an independent inquiry into the reported sexual assaults. It confirmed that rapes had taken place during the riots,
but it has yet to determine how many. The military and police have repeatedly said they have no hard evidence that sexual assault was widespread.
"Whatever motivated the killing, we see it as a form of terror against women activists,'' said Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, director of the Indonesian
Women's Association for Justice. ``The armed forces and police must do more to guarantee our safety.''
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The news item below is forwarded from Palaris-L to which it was crossposted from development-gender@mailbase.ac.uk on Thursday.
Vincent K Pollard, PhD
E-mail: pollard@hawaii.edu * Fax: + 808 956-6877
Visiting Fellow -- East-West Center (Education & Training)
Lecturer (Political Science) * University of Hawai'i - Manoa & West O'ahu
From: GREAT NETWORK
The following is a very brief and factual account of an appalling murder of an Indonesian feminist activist. It is important, not only because it was (and is) so horrible, but because of the way these methods of intimidation and terror, which were so common under Suharto are carrying right on. It is also important to all women because of the way Tim Relawan and other groups have confronted the existence of the rapes during the May riots, and have tried to provide support to the victims since then. This is a cause we all share, and by publicising this affair and bringing pressure on governments and decision makers, we can help our Indonesian sisters.
Marthadinata was 18 years old. She was a straight A student at her Catholic high school in Jakarta. A member of the ethnic Chinese community, she and her mother, Wiwin, had been active volunteers with the Tim Relawan Korban Kerusuhan Mei 1998 - a volunteer group led by a Catholic priest, Romo Sandyawan, which was set up after the Jakarta riots in May to give support to the victims of the gang rapes of Indonesian Chinese women that took place during the riots. As soon as this, and other groups, began to publicise the rapes they were subject to continuous threats - by phone, by mail, with photos of brutally raped and murdered women, and by groups of men lurking outside their homes, that if they did not stop their work, they too would be raped and murdered.
Marthadinata and her mother were due to go the United States to testify about the rapes in the next few weeks. Last Thursday, 9th October, Marthadinata stayed home from school with a slight cold. Later that afternoon, her father, Leo, found the door to the house open and Marthdinata's body on the second floor. She had been sexually assaulted and brutally murdered, with such violence that her head was nearly severed from her body. (Kompas, 10th October)
Since then, the police have refused to see the murder as anything other than a 'pure crime'. They claimed that their autopsy proved that she was a heroin addict, who had turned to prostitution to support her habit. They have since arrested a young neighbour and aquaintance, Suryada, for the crime. While nothing was taken from the house, Suryada has apparently 'confessed' that he was in the midst of an attempted burglary, and when he was suprised by Marthadinata he, he killed her. (Kompas, 12th October)
Nothing in the police account fits any known 'profile' of such killers. But it does fit both the pattern of the rapes that occurred during the May riots, and which are continuing, and is consistent with the threats received by members of the voluntary support groups. Karlina Leksona, (editor of Jurnal Perempuan, leader of Suara Ibu Peduli and other women's support groups, including Tim Relawan), and many other leaders point to the continuity of the use of covert state violence to repress any criticism of the state, which was such a feature of the Suharto regime.
Please use the above information in any way that seems useful to you. We are aiming to raise public awareness about this issue as widely as possible, and to bring pressure to bear on your own government to raise the case at whatever level they can, including directly with the Indonesian government.
Useful fax numbers are:
Indonesian ministers:
Tuty Awiyah, State Minister for Women's Affairs, fax 6221- 380-5562
Dr. H. Muladi, Minister for Justice, fax 6221-525-3095
B.J. Habibie, President of Indonesia, e-mail habibie@ristek.go.id
Copies of your messages should also be sent to:
Marzuki Darusman and Miriam Budiardjo, Deputy Directors, Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (KOMNAS-HAM) fax, 62-21-5207948 Saparinah Sadli, Chair, National Commission on Violence Against Women, fax 62-21-3907-407
I would also appreciate it if you could send an e-mail copy to mporter@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Many, many thanks for all your support.
Fenella Porter k.porter@ukonline.co.uk
Sally Theobald
Network Manager
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1603-593006
E-mail: development-gender@mailbase.ac.uk
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