Amid corruption allegations and political posturing, Indonesia has executed eight people. Two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and six other foreigners were gunned down by an Indonesian firing squad in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
In our reaction, we do not need to hold back for fear of being seen as arrogant westerners.
Execution by firing squad is the common capital punishment method used in Indonesia for a number of crimes including drug trafficking. The barbaric and cruel method has remained unchanged since 1964. Most prisoners on death row in Indonesia have been waiting more than ten years for execution.
The condemned prisoners are notified only 72 hours before their pending execution by firing squad. The prisoners are then transfered to a remote island location. In the middle of the night they They are and taken to an undisclosed isolated location to be executed by firing squad.
The new Indonesian President Joko Widodo, appears to have dashed the hopes of human rights activists by endorsing the execution by firing squad of five prisoners on death row. Indonesia will execute five drug traffickers on death row this month (December) after their requests for presidential clemency were rejected. 'The president ordered authorities to carry out the legal process accordingly,' the co-ordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Tedjo Edi Purdjianto, was quoted on Thursday as saying on the Cabinet Secretariat's website.
April 4, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly -- The following interview with Dominggus Oktavanius, secretary general of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia, was conducted by Peter Boyle. It follows a month of mass unrest and demonstrations all around the country during March 2012. Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) reports there were 1063 demonstrations, 16 police stations were damaged and 750 protesters were arrested just between March 23-26 .
Friends of the Earth Australia Media Release 26 Dec 2011
With three dead and nine critically injured, questions are being raised about the role of Australian owned company Arc Exploration after a community protest on the island of Sumbawa was attacked by Indonesian police.
by hidup biasa An Indonesian activist website reports eight people killed, hundreds wounded, ten arrested and many hiding after a police attack on protesters demonstrating against a locally working mainly Australian gold mining company. hidup biasa says the attack was on the occupation of Sape port by thousands of residents of Lambu district, Bima regency, West Nusa Tenggara, repressed and forcibly dispersed by police. The occupation, which had continued for five days, was by local people opposing the operations of PT Sumber Mineral Nusantara. The company is 95% owned by an Australian company called Arc Exploration, based in Chatswood, Sydney.
Related: Raw footage of police shooting into crowd -- ABC coverage of the shootings and protests | WALHI (FoE Indonesia) - Stop The Activity Of Mining & Slaughtering In Bima, Solidarity For Civilians Sby - Boediono Must Take Responsibility | Environmentalists call for Australian government to investigate massacre in Indonesia
In 1972, Chairman Mao invited two delegations of Aboriginal Australians to tour China.
Breaking News: Reports are coming out of West Papua of Indonesian police and army firing on people attending the Papuan Congress.
Report by West Papua media on October 19 states:
Confirmed report from credible sources on the ground from credible West Papua media stringers.
TNI troops have opened fire on Congress at 1530 Jayapura time.
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Thursday, 11 August 2011 2:12 PM
MEDIA RELEASE FROM GERRY GEORGATOS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE:
MINISTER TERRY REDMAN, MINISTER SIMON O'BRIEN AND PREMIER BARNETT MUST RESIGN.
MINISTER CHRIS BOWEN, MINISTER BRENDAN O'CONNOR, ATTORNEY-GENERAL ROBERT MCCLELLAND MUST RESIGN.
PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD HAS LIED TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AND MUST RESIGN. MS GILLARD IMPRISONS CHILDREN IN ADULT PRISONS.
The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:
THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN - up to 100 of the world's most impoverished children in Australian adult prisons - WHERE IS HADI?
There may be up to 100 impoverished Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - we know for a fact the brunt of these numbers are in Western Australian prisons.
At this time some of these children's cases are being heard in Australian Courts.
