Bullets in the Dark

Four out of the eight casualties of the May 22 riots are believed to have been shot. Their families are asking for police transparency.

Devy Ernis

June 11, 2019

ALTHOUGH it has been two weeks, MR still hears the sound of bullets whizzing in his ears. At dawn on Wednesday, May 22, in Central Jakarta’s Petamburan area, those bullets just barely missed his right ear. He was unharmed, but his friend Muhammad Reyhan Fajari, who stood next to him, fell to the ground with a bullet hole on his left temple. “It was dark, the lights were out. I only heard the sound of the bullets passing my ear,”

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