A Tough Deadline
Jakarta Legal Aid has asked victims of the 1965 incident and former political prisoners to prepare to file a class action lawsuit against the government within two months.
July 12, 2005
A STACK of papers is piled high on a table in the waiting room of the Indonesian Legal Aid Office in Jakarta. "Those are letters of notice for victims of the 1965 incident and former political prisoners that we plan to file a class action lawsuit against the government at the Central Jakarta District Court," said Legal Aid lawyer Gatot, pointing to the papers.
On May 18, the Central Jakarta District Court announced that it ha
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