Old Methods in a New Regime

ICG Director Sidney Jones was finally deportedrepression intended to create fear in society.

June 8, 2004

SYDNEY Jones finally had to pack her bags. A letter from the Jakarta Regional Office of the Department of Justice & Human Rights on Tuesday last week forced the Director of the International Crisis Group (ICG) to depart. Besides revoking the immigration permits of Jones and her colleague Francesca Lawe-Davies, the note also ordered the two to immediately leave Indonesia.

But the departure of Jones was not followed by the closure of room 14

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