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Recently we have new president, B.J. Habibie replacing Suharto, after his 35 years presidency. The power handover also triggered by student and people demonstration in Jakarta during May 1998.
During the demonstration, Komnas HAM (National Committee for Human Rights) and Tim Relawan (Volunteers Group) lead by Romo Sandyawan strongly believed the occurrence of gang-raped of Indonesian military toward Chinese women in Jakarta, Solo, and Medan. Until now, Indonesian military authority still investigating those cases without any witness nor victims forwarded by Komnas HAM/Tim Relawan. Recently, the Taiwan NGO and US Congress-men visiting Indonesia claimed that no rape toward Chinese women happen in Jakarta during May 1998. However, Kompas published the denial response from Taiwan NGO, without name and address with contradictory statement. See for your self.
Unfortunately this gang-raped rumour were strongly circulated across internet, through newsgroup, mailing list, and websites especially among foreign Chinese (huaren). Some irresponsible netter send some rape photos from pornographic sites and claimed to be related with May 1998 incident. The publication of fake photos across internet create uneasy feeling among Chinese people and blamed Indonesian people for their non-existence atrocities. Some responsible website already removed the fake photo that also used to dramatize East Timor atrocities. The existing photos currently shown on many huaren website are unidentified burned body during May 1998, those burned bodies that also published on Indonesian newspaper are mainly the looters - not Chinese people - who trapped on the buildings. Several hacking attempt from Chinese hacker already destroyed bkkbn.go.id, and hankam.go.id.
Recently, many revelation and further evidence proofed that those gang-raped rumour are baseless and factless rumour and issue. Romo Sandyawan, as the leader of Volunteers Group on Humanity also condemn the fake-photo distribution across internet. Even US Congress-men shook their head - disbelief of the strong rumours circulated. The fake photo revelation and proof are available here with complete report from Lateline News. This is some view - why they are doing it.
We regret all of the internet conspiracy that create hatred toward Indonesia, and we must say: STOP IT!. Let's work together to solve this problem based on sounding facts. Join our mailing list.
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