A Private Army Attacks

The offices of Kontras and the PBHI in Jakarta were vandalized by a group dressed as Panca Marga Youth members. A side effect of the war in Aceh?

June 3, 2003

More than one hundred people dressed in the camouflage uniform of the Pemuda Panca Marga (PPM) youth organization, destroyed and vandalized the office of the Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence (Kontras) on Jalan Cisadane in Central Jakarta last week. The police were unable to stop the violence, but that same day the Central Jakarta Police managed to question those allegedly responsible for the damage.

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