A/HRC/4/41 page 48 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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