The Victims' Tale

The former PDI office on Jalan Diponegoro, Jakarta, has been forgotten by senior PDI-P officials, as the events of July 27, 1996 fade from memory.

July 23, 2002

THE voice of Megawati Soekarnoputri giving the opening speech at the national working meeting of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) at the Kartika Plaza Hotel, Kuta, Bali, was clearly audible, albeit slightly crackly, on the cheap radio. Elsye Mailoa and Syahlan Hutagaol sat hunkered down in the dark front office of the former head office of the PDI at Jalan Diponegoro 58, Central Jakarta, listening to the voice of their

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