Wednesday, October 10, 2012

*Kolom IBRAHIM ISA
Minggu, 07 Okotber 2012
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MELAKSANAKAN ATAU MENSABOT KESIMPULAN KOMNASHAM 23 JULI 2012 SEKITAR PERISTIWA 1965

Pagi ini, Minggu, 07 Oktober 2012,  Lembaga Pembela Korban 1965 (LPK65), Holland,  -- mengadakan pertemuan untuk memperingati "Peristiwa Pelanggaran HAM Terbesar" dalam sejarah Repubik Indonesia, Pengejaran dan Pembunuhan Masal oleh aparat negara di bawah Jendral Suharto, terhadap warganegara yang tidak bersalah.

Hadirin akan mendengarkan ceramah Prof. DR Saskia E. Wierenga, berjudul  "POLITIK SEKSUAL DI INDONESIA; KONSEKWENSI PEMBUNUHAN MASAL 1965/1966 SAMPAI SEKARANG. Juga akan dipertunjukkan film dokumenter berjudul  "The Women and the Generals".

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Sekitar Peristiwa 1965, khususnya kekerasan dan kekejaman yang dilakukan oleh aparat negara di bawah Jendral Suharto, -- KomnasHam telah mengeluarkan kesimpulnnya tertanggal  23 Juli 2012.

Sudah nampak bahwa perjuangan sengit sedang berlangsung sekitar masalah ini:

MELAKSANAKAN ATAU MENSABOT Kesimpulan KomnasHAM 23 Juli 2012, untuk mengungkap dan menemukan kebenaran dan keadilan bagi para korban dan meluruskan serta menjernihkan sejarah bangsa kita selanjutnuya.

  Di bawah ini disiarkan kembali news-item yang disiarkan oleh The Jakarta Post dan tanggapan terhadapnya.

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*IBRAHIM ISA
Sabtu, 06 Oktober 2012
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SILAKAN BACA DAN FIKIRKAN REPORTASE WARTAWAN "THE JAKARTA POST", di
bawah ini :

"KENANG-KENANGAN SEMASA KANAK-KANAK MENGENAI PEMBUNUHAN MASAL DI KLATEN
. . (1965)

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Childhood memories of mass murder in Klaten
The Jakarta Post | Reportage | Sat, September 29 2012, 3:07 PM

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The declaration by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM)
that the 1965 purge of communists and their supporters was a gross
violation of human rights immediately revived my memories of the brutal
killings.

As a nine-year-old boy, I saw huge piles of bodies in a remote creek
somewhere in Jogonalan district in Klaten, Central Java.

On a chilly morning just before sunrise, I went on foot with my elder
brother, relatives and neighbors to try to locate the place where we had
heard the gunshots.

In the wee hours I had heard: "Det, det, det, det, det...... det, det, det .."

"Ono opo to kae (What's up)?" a relative asked in Javanese. No one
answered as everybody had been sound asleep. However, it was surely the
sound of gunshots.

When we finally reached the site, far from the villages, we found a
creek near a railway crossing piled with bodies, full of bullet holes.
In the pools of blood I saw gold teeth flashing from gaping mouths. I
thought they might have been screaming in pain.

Whitish brain matter was splattered over the bodies, possibly because
the alleged communist party members were shot at close range.

People flocked to the scene from every direction. Most were speechless.
The only expressions heard were of horror.

As a child, I did not know what was going on. What I heard was that the
alleged PKI members were slaughtered before they could kill their
opponents --- Muslims, Christians and others.

One rumor was that the communists had been digging holes in many places
to bury any opponents of communism the found after the coup.

I learned much later that after the Sept. 30 events, thousands of people
--- some estimate between 500,000 and 1 million --- who were suspected of
being PKI members or their supporters, were slaughtered. Many others
were jailed for years without any trial or charges, or forced into exile.

The discrimination against people associated with the PKI continued with
the government barring them from becoming soldiers, civil servants and
teachers or from any employment at state institutions. Former PKI
members and supporters also found it hard to get jobs due to the
ex-political prisoner status on their identity cards, while their
relatives were similarly stigmatized.

Under former president Soeharto's rule, any discussion and recognition
of the mass killings that was different from the official state versions
was quickly suppressed.

During the nationwide purge, military officials were believed to have
deliberately targeted innocent civilians. Many of the victims actually
had nothing to do with the communist party or its subordinates.

In its development the Constitutional Court ruled, in 2004, that former
PKI members were allowed to contest elections. Two years later, the
government deleted the ex-political prisoner label from identity cards.

The human rights commission has now recommended that the military
officials involved in the purge be brought to trial. State officials
under the Operational Command for the Restoration of Security and Order
(Kopkamtib) led by Soeharto, who served from 1965 to 1967, for example,
should be taken to court for various crimes, including rape, torture and
killings.

The Commission also recommended that the government issue a formal
apology to the victims and their family members --- an apology which
should be followed by rehabilitation, reparation and compensation.

Now the creek where slaughtered bodies were piled, witness to one of the
bloodiest incidents in Klaten, is still functioning as part of an
irrigation network. Those who do not know that brutal killings ever took
place there pay no attention to it, but a chill runs through me whenever
I pass it by.

--- JP/Hyginus Hardoyo

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Garda Sembiring
Ya, Pak Isa : "Those who do not know that brutal killings ever took place there pay no attention to it, but a chill runs through me whenever I pass it by". Ini sungguh sebuah kenangan getir yang tak terhapuskan. Tapi di sisi lain saya salut mendapati lebih banyak orang berani menyampaikan kesaksiannya secara jujur tentang tragedi yang amat berdarah ini--yang terus-menerus disangkal pemerintah--di ruang publik. Bukannya tanpa resiko mereka bersaksi seperti ini. Buat saya ini contoh dari sebuah fearless speech.

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          *Ibrahim Isa
          Ya Bung Garda Sembiring, ----

          Tapi kita tokh bertambah semangat dan keyakinan bahwa
          kebenaran sekitar 1965, kejahatan dan kebiadaban yang
          dilakukan oleh aparat keamanan negara terhadap warga yang
          tidak bersalah, --- selangkah demi selangkah TERUNGKAP. Ini
          arti penting dari Laporan/Kesimpulan KomnasHAM, 23 Juli 2012.
          Maka perdebatan besar dan perjuangan sengit sekitar
          MELAKSANAKAN ATAU TIDAK KESIMPULAN KOMNASHAM 23 JULI 2012,
          akan menjadi titik-fokus yang semakin krusial. Mulai dari
          mantan jendral sampai ke Menko Hukum dan Keamanan, termasuk
          kiayi-kiayi yang tidak sega-segan menyalahgunakan agama untuk
          membela kepentingan politiknya, -- menutupi kebenaran, - - --
          belakangan ini sudah tampil ke arena perjuangan ini. Boleh
          dibilang setiap warga dihadapkan pada pertanyaan dan sikap
          apakah mau mencari dan mengungkap kebenaran dan memberlakukan
          keadilan, ataukah seperti selama ini, menutup-nutupi dan
          meneruskan politik dan kultur rezim Orba yang hidup dan
          bertahan di landasan kebohongan, pembodohan dan
          ketidak-jujuran, ----- KKN di segala bidang kehidupan . *


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