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Sugeng�s Last Days

Yovinus Guntur Wicaksono — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:40

In the middle of Class I of the Surabaya Prison yard in Porong, Sidoarjo there is a beautiful garden where many kinds of flowers and trees grow. One of the prisoners is diligently watering the flowers and trees one by one. While smoking a clove cigarette this gray-haired man separates the dirt from the trees.

"Don't just stay there, Mas (big brother - in Javanese). Just come closer

The Execution of Romance in Surabaya

Yovinus Guntur Wicaksono — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:34:19

Saturday, 19 June 2008. The final day of the campaign in the East Java governor election was a hazy day for Felicia. The woman with fair complexion had to lose Sugeng, the man of her dreams.

She felt even worse after Sugeng died, shot by the firing squad of the East Java Paramilitary Branch of National Police (Brimob Polda Jatim). Sugeng was executed for murdering five

My Wish to be a Migrant Worker has Drowned

Andi Haryanto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:12:29

I have been working in Malaysia for about a year when I was caught in an operation conducted by the Malaysian securities forces. I was working together with my sister at the time. I was caught because I did not have a passport and working permit. So I was sent to jail for a week before they "disposed" me and sent me to Dumai, in the province of Riau.

The Cruelty of the Suharto Regime (3): Stepped On, My Private Parts Bleeding

Margiyono — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:14:54

At the time, I was a journalist for Daily Economic Nusa Bakti. I was also member of the United Journalists of Indonesia (PWI) and active in the Nationalist Party of Indonesia (PNI) lead by Alo-Surachman. People used to say PNI-Asu, short for Ali-Surachman.

I was arrested in the year 1968 in South Blitar in East Java after the 1965 incidents. I was arrested with a group of students

The Cruelty of the Suharto Regime (2): Electrocuted Until Fainting

Margiyono — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:28

In the year 1965 I was only 36 years old. I worked as a government official at the Traffic Government Service in Lampung (Sumatra). I was active organizing the Labor Union for the Traffic Service workers. In 1966 I went to Jakarta on a work assignment. I went straight to the house of my family on Jalan Percetakan Negara in Central Jakarta. The fatigue from the journey vanished

The Cruelty of the Suharto Regime (1): I was Tortured at the Military Police Headquarters

Margiyono — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:07

That particular night of 12 September 1984, I was still in the third grade of Junior High School. I was taking part in a large religious meeting on a field close to my home, on Jalan Sindang in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta. There were many people present at the event. Hundreds were listening to a speech by Amir Biki, an hard liner Islamic figure from that area. Besides Amir Biki, there

Police Forced us to Perform Oral Sex

Margiyono — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:39:31

On the night of Monday, 22 January, I was intimate with a male friend in my dormitory in the area of Banda Raya in Banda Aceh. At 10.30 pm the neighbor of the room next to me was spying on us.

Before long, some people smashed on the door of my room, until it broke down. They broke some of my things. After that they beat me. Behavior

The Awakening

Liza Desylanhi — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:31:15

Just call me Ardi. In facing 41 years old, I feel blessed of having the chance to enjoy my life. Maybe my life is not complete as others, for they are facing their achievements; I still do not have financial stability, without degree or prestigious title.

I'm a very ordinary person. But if I look back to my past,

Guiding Balqiz to the Light of the World

Rosmi Julitasari S — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:10:38

VHRmedia.com - Saturday, September 17^th, 2005 becomes the happiest day for me, Primaningrum Arinarresmi Rustam. After waiting for eight years, God finally complete my life as a human being, as a wife of Muhammad Rustam, as a woman. I become a mother. God bless us with His enormous blessings, we are given three children