Betul, penggunaan Bom Napalm ini sangat menyedihkan, seperti penjajah saja.
Berikut adalah press release dari Walhi dan Watch Indonesia !
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Regards,
C.A. Hidayat-Pekanbaru
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--- On Thu, 12/25/08, Marianne Klute <......................@..............de>
wrote:
From: Marianne Klute <.................@..............de>
Subject: Press releases by Watch Indonesia! and WALHI: Aerial bombardment of
peasants in Sumatran village
To: "'! C.A. Hidayat'" <intro...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 6:52 AM
Press releases by Watch Indonesia! and WALHI (Friends of the Earth
Indonesia)
Aerial bombardment of peasants in Sumatran village
Berlin, 23rd December 2008:
On Thursday, 18th December, hundreds of police and paramilitaries
attacked the Sumatran village Suluk Bongkal in Riau Province with tear
gas and guns. A helicopter dropped incendiary devices on the village,
with eye witnesses alleging that napalm was used. Hundreds of houses
immediately went up in flames. Two young children were killed and many
people were injured. Most of the villagers have fled into the forest.
Others have been arrested. Two days later, a helicopter flew at low
height over the tents of homeless villagers and bombarded them with
stones.
The news sounded so unbelievable that Watch Indonesia! was initially
hesitant to disseminate them, however the information has now been
confirmed, except that the type of bombs dropped still has to be
verified. The environmental organisation WALHI (Friends of the Earth
Indonesia) has identified the attack on poor villagers as the result of
struggles over raw materials and land, which are so common in Indonesia.
In this case, the conflict was over paper and in particular a pulp and
paper plantation by PT Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper
(APP) which, in turn is a subsidiary of the Indonesian company Sinar
Mas. PT Arara Abadi/APP used the police and hired paramilitaries in
order to evict villagers with pure force. The Indonesian Human Rights
Commission has now taken on the case.
Watch Indonesia! protests against the attack on Suluk Bongkal and the
extremely brutal violence against the civilian population. We demand an
immediate investigation of this new human rights abuse, compensation for
the local population and a guarantee of their safety and rights, as well
as punishment of those responsible for the violence. We demand that
European governments and companies examine their links to companies such
as Sinar Mas which are responsible for human rights abuses. Europes
excessive consumption bears some of the responsibility for the growing
use of violence in land conflicts over paper, palm oil, gold and other
raw materials. Sumatra is not the only place where people are being
violently evicted for mass production of paper.
Contact: Marianne Klute, watchindone...@snafu.de, .............@snafu.de
WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia): End the violence on pulp and
paper plantations.
Jakarta, 22nd December 2008
Once more, state forces have used violence against people in the
conflict over natural resources. The settlement of Suluk Bongkal,
Beringin, in the district of Bengkali, Riau Province, Sumatra has been
attacked by security forces. Two toddlers have been killed. 400
villagers have fled into the mountains and 58 people remain in the
village. They are under extreme psychological pressure. On Thursday,
18th December 2008, mobile police brigades in Riau, together with
ordinary police officers and 500 paramilitaries stormed the settlement
of Suluk Bongkal in order to evict the population. The background is
the claim which the plantation company PT Arara Abadi is making on the
land, and the companys support by sectors of the government.
WALHI is strongly opposed to any use of state violence against the
population for the purpose of defending industry interests says Berry
Nahidan Forgan, director of WALHI. This police and paramilitary action
constitutes a violation of human rights, he states.
This is not the first incident in the conflict between PT Arara Abadi
and the population. The conflict began in 1984, when PT Arara Abadi
destroyed 200 graves of the indigenous Sakai people. Since since, 26
conflicts have been registered. The main cause is land rights
conflicts. People are losing the right to their land, without receiving
fair and timely compensation. This is escalating conflicts and violence
between PT Arara Abadi and the local population.
Arara Abadi, a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group, a company owned by Eka
Tjipta Wijaya, to which Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) also belongs, supply
wood to the pulp and paper factory Indah Kiat. Arara Abadi operates the
largest pulp and paper tree plantation in Indonesia. In Riau alone,
Arara Abadi has concessions over more than 350,000 hectares. Most of
those tree plantations were set up in contravention of Indonesian
legislation: Forestry legislation has been ignored, monocultures have
been established on steep slopes which are at an angle of more than 30°,
in water catchment areas, in areas with high biodiversity and on land
belonging to local communities.
State security forces, which are supposed to serve the population, have
committed a crime against human rights with their attack on the
population of Suluk Bongkal. There are strong indications that the
violence was planned: Police and paramilitaries even used a special
incendiary bomb in order to burn the village, they used fire arms and
tear gas and a helicopter which appears to belong to PT Arara Abadi.
WALHI demands that the Indonesian government withdraws the licence
from PT Arara Abadi, ends the violence against people and all measures
to isolate the village, releases those who have been detained and
returns all property stolen from the people says Berry Nahdian Forquan.
WALHI also demands strong measures against those responsible for the
violence.
WALHI believes that the violence in Suluk Bongkal, Bengkalis-Riau
reflects the way in which natural resources are being treated in
Indonesia, in a way which creates ever more conflicts and removes
essential resources from the Indonesian population. People are becoming
ever poorer as they lose access to and control of the countrys natural
riches. The government must immediately address agrarian conflicts and
conflicts over natural resources. The people must be given back
sovereignty over the resources on which their livelihoods depend. The
government must restructure the pulp and paper industry as well as
reviewing licenses for large-scale tree monoculture.
Contact: Ade Fadli (adefa...@walhi.or.id)
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--- On Wed, 12/24/08, yustamb <yust...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: yustamb <yust...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ppiindia] Re: Polri gunakan Bom Napalm terhadap Warga Dusun Suluk
Bongkal?
To: ppiindia@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 5:15 AM
*** Sial, ternyata penguasa kita lebih kejam dari Israel, sangat
menjijikkan, negara yang menjunjung tinggi panca sila, ternyata
menginjak-injak kemanusiaan itu sendiri . . .
salam,
--- In ppiin...@yahoogroup s.com, Satrio Arismunandar
<satrioarismunandar @...> wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: In Defence of Marxism - Indonesia <indone...@marxist. com>
> Date: 2008/12/24
> Subject: [IDOM - Indonesia] Statemen Solidaritas dari IMT kepada
Warga Dusun
> Suluk Bongkal
>
> Bom Napalm Model Vietnam Digunakan Melawan Kaum Tani Indonesia: Statemen
> Solidaritas Kepada Warga Dusun Suluk Bongkal
>
> Oleh International Marxist Tendency
>
> Pada tanggal 18 Desember, pihak kepolisian Indonesia, yang mewakili
> kepentingan PT. Arara Abadi (sebuah perusahaan kertas and pulp),
menyerbu
> warga dusun Suluk Bongkal di Sumatra yang sedang berjuang mempertahankan
> lahannya dari serobotan PT. Arara Abadi. Dengan dilengkapi
pentungan, water
> canon, dan senjata api, serta dukungan preman-preman bayaran,
sekitar 500
> pasukan polisi menerobos barisan yang dibentuk oleh ibu-ibu dan
anak-anak
> yang berdiri di jalan masuk desa. Lalu mereka menembaki warga dengan
peluru
> karet dan gas air mata, memukuli mereka dengan kejam, dan membakari
> rumah-rumah warga dengan bom napalm yang dijatuhi dari 2 helikopter.
Represi
> ini bukan hanya mengakibatkan banyak warga yang terluka tetapi juga
> meninggalnya seorang anak berumur 2 tahun (yang bernama Fitri) yang
jatuh ke
> dalam sumur akibat lari ketakutan.
>
> Dari laporan terakhir, sekitar 200 warga termasuk aktivis-aktivis
Serikat
> Tani Riau ditahan dan lebih dari 400 warga sampai sekarang masih berada
> ditengah hutan bersembunyi dari represi polisi. Pihak kepolisian telah
> menambah pasukannya, dengan ribuan polisi dan preman berjaga-jaga dan
> mengejar para warga dan aktivis-aktivis Serikat Tani Riau.
>
> Ratusan warga desa Suluk Bongkal diteror, 700-an rumah mereka habis
> terbakar, tanah pertanian dan alat produksi mereka tak
terselamatkan, dan
> satu anak umur 2 tahun kehilangan nyawanya. Ini semua demi
kepentingan PT.
> Arara Abadi yang ingin mengklaim tanah seluas 5 ribu hektar ini yang
> merupakan tanah milik rakyat.
>
> PT Arara Abadi adalah subsidiari divisi perhutanan di Sumatra dari
Sinar Mas
> Group, salah satu konglomerat terbesar di Indonesia yang dimiliki oleh
> kapitalis nasional Eka Tjipta Widjaja. Perusahaan ini adalah bagian dari
> Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) yang merupakan korporasi multinasional dan salah
> satu perusahaan pulp dan kertas terbesar di dunia yang memiliki klien di
> lebih dari 60 negara. Disini kita lihat dengan jelas seribu benang yang
> mengikat kaum borjuasi nasional Indonesia dengan modal asing, dan bahwa
> aparatus negara Indonesia adalah tidak lebih dari alat represi dari
kekuatan
> modal nasional dan modal asing, dalam kata lain alat represi dari
> kapitalisme.
>
> Dengan krisis ekonomi global ini, seperti halnya banyak perusahaan
lainnya,
> harga saham APP telah jatuh hampir 75% dalam waktu 6 bulan terakhir. Ini
> mendorong perusahaan-perusaha an kapitalis untuk lebih
mengeksploitasi rakyat
> dengan cara: menekan upah buruh, memecat buruh, dan di dalam kasus ini
> menyerobot tanah rakyat guna mendapatkan profit yang lebih tinggi.
Ini bukan
> pertama kalinya APP dan subsidiari-subsidia rinya melakukan kekejaman
> terhadap rakyat dalam usahanya mencari profit, dan bukan hanya di
Indonesia
> tetapi juga di Cina dan Kamboja.
>
> Oleh karena itu, International Marxist Tendency menyatakan sikap sebagai
> berikut:
>
> 1. Menyatakan solidaritas kita kepada warga Suluk Bongkal dan
kawan-kawan
> Serikat Tani Riau di dalam perjuangan mereka untuk membela hak
mereka atas
> tanah mereka.
> 2. Mengutuk tindakan represi yang dilakukan terhadap warga Suluk Bongkal
> oleh pihak kepolisian yang mewakili kepentingan PT Arara Abadi.
> 3. Bawa ke pengadilan semua pihak yang terkait di dalam represi ini,
> termasuk pimpinan PT Arara Abadi
> 4. Menuntut dibebaskannya dengan segera 200 orang warga dan aktivis
> Serikat Tani Riau yang tertangkap tanpa syarat.
> 5. Menuntut dikembalikannya tanah milik warga Suluk Bongkal, dengan
ganti
> rugi penuh terhadap seluruh kerusakan yang dilakukan oleh pihak
kepolisian
> dan preman-preman bayaran.
> 6. Menyerukan kepada para pekerja Sinar Mas Group, APP, dan
> subsidiari-subsidia rinya untuk mengorganisir mogok kerja solidaritas
>
> Krisis kapitalisme global akan semakin mempertajam and memperparah
> serangan-serangan terhadap rakyat pekerja dan kaum tani.
Satu-satunya jalan
> untuk melawan ini adalah dengan mengambil sikap ofensif. Rakyat pekerja
> bersama-sama dengan kaum tani dan lapisan tertindas lainnya, bersatu
> bergerak bersama menuju sosialisme.
>
> Nasionalisasi Ekonomi di Bawah Kontrol Buruh!
> Nasionalisasi Tanah di Bawah Kontrol Tani!
> Buruh dan Tani, Bersatulah!
>
> Vietnam style napalm bombs used against Indonesian peasants: A
solidarity
> statement for the people of Suluk Bongkal
>
> By International Marxist Tendency
>
> On December 18th, the Indonesian police, who represent the interests
of P.T.
> Arara Abadi, a pulp and paper company in Indonesia, attacked the
people of
> Suluk Bongkal village in Sumatra who have been fighting to protect their
> land from the encroachment of P.T. Arara Abadi. Equipped with
batons, water
> cannons, and fire arms, also with the support of hundreds of paid thugs,
> about 500 police officers attacked the picket line made up of women and
> children who were blocking the road to the village. Then they started
> shooting at the people with rubber bullets and tear gas, brutally
beating
> the people, and burning down their houses with napalm bombs dropped
from two
> helicopters. This repression not only injured many people but also
cost the
> life of a 2-year-old child named Fitri who fell into a well because
she was
> running scared from the attack.
>
> From the latest report about 200 people, including the activists
from the
> Riau Peasants' Union, have been arrested and more than 400 people
are hiding
> in the jungle fearing further repression. The police have brought in
> reinforcements, with thousands of police and hired thugs patrolling the
> village and hunting down the residents and activists of the Riau
Peasants'
> Union.
>
> Hundreds of residents of Suluk Bongkal village have been terrorized,
around
> 700 of their houses have been burned to the ground, their
agricultural land
> and equipment has been destroyed, and one 2-year-old child has lost her
> life. All this to defend the interests of P.T. Arara Abadi who wants
to take
> over a 5000 acre piece of land which belongs to the people of Suluk
Bongkal.
>
> P.T. Arara Abadi is the Sumatra subsidiary forestry division of
Sinar Mas
> Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia owned by the local
> capitalist Eka Tjipta Widjaja. This company is part of Asia Pulp & Paper
> (APP), a multinational corporation which is one of the largest pulp and
> paper companies in the world with clients in more than 60 countries.
Here we
> see clearly the thousand threads that bind the Indonesian national
> bourgeoisie with foreign capital, and how the Indonesian state
apparatus is
> nothing more than a tool of repression of foreign and national capital.
>
> With the global economic crisis, just as in many other companies,
the stock
> value of APP has dropped more than 75% in the last 6 months. This is
pushing
> many capitalist companies to intensify exploitation even more by pushing
> down the wages of the workers, sacking the workers, and in this case
taking
> over the people's land in order to increase profit. This is not the
first
> time APP and its subsidiaries have been involved in repression
against the
> people in its pursuit of profit, and not only in Indonesia but also
in China
> and Cambodia.
>
> Therefore, the International Marxist Tendency would like to make these
> statements:
>
> 1. We are in solidarity with the people of Suluk Bongkal and the
comrades
> of the Riau Peasants' Union in the their struggle to defend their land
> rights.
> 2. We condemn the repression perpetrated against the people of Suluk
> Bongkal by the police forces who are representing the interests of P.T.
> Arara Abadi.
> 3. We demand that everyone involved in this repression be brought to
> justice, including the director of P.T. Arara Abadi.
> 4. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of the 200
residents
> and activists of the Riau Peasants' Union who have been arrested.
> 5. We demand the return of the land belonging to the people of Suluk
> Bongkal, with full compensation for the destruction carried out by the
> police and the hired thugs.
> 6. We appeal to the workers of the Sinar Mas Group, APP, and their
> subsidiaries to organize a strike in solidarity
>
> The global crisis of capitalism will sharpen and worsen the attacks
against
> workers and peasants. The only way to fight this is to take an offensive
> stand. The workers together with the peasants and the oppressed
layers need
> to unite and move toward socialism.
>
> Nationalization of the economy under workers' control!
> Nationalization of land under peasants' control!
> Workers and peasants unite!
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