A NUMBER of people were shot dead by the Indonesian Military (TNI) during the Tanjung Priok incident 19 years ago. One of them was Amir Biki, a resident of the North Jakarta neighborhood where the violence took place. It left a deep wound in the Biki family, particularly in Amir's 43-year-old younger brother, Mochtar Beni Biki.

Unlike the families of other victims, Beni Biki refused to accept islah or `reconciliation' way of solving the long-