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Request for a visit
221. Following a decision made at its eightieth session, the Working Group decided to request
a mission to Indonesia in order to facilitate the clarification of outstanding cases.
Summary of the situation prior to the period under review
222. The majority of the cases of disappearance reported to the Working Group occurred
in 1992 and between 1998 and 2000 in Jakarta, Aceh and East Timor (formerly under Indonesian
control); a large number concerned students involved in anti-Government demonstrations in
East Timor, Jakarta and Sumatra, among them the leader of the Indonesian Students Solidarity
for Democracy. Eight other cases that occurred in 2002 and 2003 in Aceh concerned three trade
unionists and the Head of the Aceh Besar District Branch of the Information Centre for a
Referendum in Aceh, two students, and the Head of the production unit of TVR1 Studio at
Gue Gajah. The one case transmitted in 2004 concerned a person who was reportedly abducted
in Sanggeue village by Indonesian Army and Mobile Brigade troops during their joint operation
in Delima and Garut areas, Pidie regency. Other cases concerned the personal driver of the
leader of the Papua independence movement who was allegedly abducted by government forces
in 2001, a man who allegedly disappeared when an Islamic lecture was broken up by military
gunfire in 1984, and eight men who reportedly disappeared during a riot in 1998 near a
department store in Jakarta.
223. In 2002, in accordance with its methods of work, the Working Group decided to transfer
cases of disappearances that occurred in the past in East Timor and were listed under Indonesia
to the authorities of Timor-Leste.
Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding
224. In the past and during the year under review, the Working Group transmitted 157 cases to
the Government; of those, 3 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the
source and 154 cases remain outstanding.
Observations
225. The Working Group encourages the Government of Indonesia to communicate with the
Working Group to further the clarification of the 154 outstanding cases.
226. The Working Group encourages Indonesia, in cooperation with Timor-Leste, to
communicate with the Working Group to further the clarification of the 425 cases of
disappearance which occurred on the territory of Timor-Leste during Indonesian rule.
227. The Working Group urges the Government of Indonesia to respond positively to its
request for a country visit.
228. The Working Group requests information concerning the investigation and prosecution
for the death of Mr. Munir, the Chairman of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary
Disappearances, who was the subject of a prompt intervention letter in 2004 (see
E/CN.4/2006/56, para. 276).
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