When Heads Roll
Police brutality at a Makassar student demonstration shows that, without supervision, Polris stance may be more military than civil.
May 11, 2004
ANGER has not yet abated. Approximately 500 people took to the streets last Friday in the Gladag Roundabout, Solo. They carried an effigy shrouded by an American flag that had been defaced with the name of a now-suspect figure. The demonstratorswho claimed membership in the Surakarta Muslims Organization (UIS)shouted furiously, demanding that President Megawati without delay remove the figure in question, Republic of Indonesias Chief of National
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