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OUR MODEL DICTATOR

The Guardian
Monday, January 28, 2008

Our Model Dictator

The death of Suharto is a reminder of the west's ignoble role in propping up a murderous regime

By John Pilger

In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an Australian aircraft flying over the island of Timor. A party is in progress, and two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. "This is an historically unique moment," says one of them, "that is truly uniquely historical."

This was Gareth Evans, Australia's then foreign minister. The other man was Ali Alatas, the principal mouthpiece of the Indonesian dictator General Suharto, who died yesterday. The year was 1989, and the two were making a grotesquely symbolic flight to celebrate the signing of a treaty that would allow Australia and the international oil and gas companies to exploit the seabed off East Timor, then illegally and viciously occupied by Suharto. The prize, according to Evans, was "zillions of dollars".

Beneath them lay a land of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses in tiers on the hillsides. Filming clandestinely in East Timor, I would walk into the scrub, and there were the crosses. They littered the earth and crowded the eye. In 1993, the foreign affairs committee of Australia's parliament reported that "at least 200,000" had died under Indonesia's occupation: almost a third of the population. Yet East Timor's horror, foretold and nurtured by the US, Britain and Australia, was a sequel. "No single American action in the period after 1945," wrote the historian Gabriel Kolko, "was as bloodthirsty as its role in Indonesia, for it tried to initiate the massacre." He was referring to Suharto's seizure of power in 1965-6, which caused the violent deaths of up to a million people.

To understand the significance of Suharto is to look beneath the surface of the current world order: the so-called global economy and the ruthless cynicism of those who run it. Suharto was our model mass murderer - "our" is used here advisedly. "One of our very best and most valuable friends," Thatcher called him. For three decades the south-east Asian department of the Foreign Office worked tirelessly to minimise the crimes of Suharto's gestapo, known as Kopassus, who gunned down people with British-supplied Heckler & Koch machine guns from British-supplied Tactica "riot control" vehicles.

A Foreign Office speciality was smearing witnesses to the bombing of East Timorese villages by British-supplied Hawk aircraft --until Robin Cook was forced to admit it was true. Almost a billion pounds in export credit guarantees financed the sale of the Hawks, paid for by the British taxpayer while the arms industry reaped the profit.

Only the Australians were more obsequious. "We know your people love you," the prime minister Bob Hawke told the dictator to his face. His successor, Paul Keating, regarded the tyrant as a father figure. Paul Kelly, a prominent Murdoch retainer, led a group of major newspaper editors to Jakarta, to fawn before the mass murderer even though they all knew his grisly record.

Here lies a clue as to why Suharto, unlike Saddam Hussein, died not on the gallows but surrounded by the finest medical team his secret billions could buy. Ralph McGehee, a senior CIA operations officer in the 1960s, describes the terror of Suharto's takeover in 1965-6 as "the model operation" for the US-backed coup that got rid of Salvador Allende in Chile seven years later. "The CIA forged a document purporting to reveal a leftist plot to murder Chilean military leaders," he wrote, "[just like] what happened in Indonesia in 1965." The US embassy in Jakarta supplied Suharto with a "zap list" of Indonesian Communist party members and crossed off the names when they were killed or captured. Roland Challis, BBC south-east Asia correspondent at the time, told me how the British government was secretly involved in this slaughter. "British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so they could take part in the terrible holocaust," he said. "I and other correspondents were unaware of this at the time . . . There was a deal, you see."

The deal was that Indonesia under Suharto would offer up what Richard Nixon had called "the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in south-east Asia". In November 1967 the greatest prize was handed out at a remarkable three-day conference sponsored by the Time-Life Corporation in Geneva. Led by David Rockefeller, all the corporate giants were represented: the major oil companies and banks, General Motors, Imperial Chemical Industries, British American Tobacco, Siemens, US Steel and many others. Across the table sat Suharto's US-trained economists who agreed to the corporate takeover of their country, sector by sector. The Freeport company got a mountain of copper in West Papua. A US/European consortium got the nickel. The giant Alcoa company got the biggest slice of Indonesia's bauxite. America, Japanese and French companies got the tropical forests of Sumatra. When the plunder was complete,President Lyndon Johnson sent his congratulations on "a magnificent story of opportunity seen and promise awakened". Thirty years later, with the genocide in East Timor also complete, the World Bank described the Suharto dictatorship as a "model pupil".

Shortly before the death of Alan Clark, who under Thatcher was the minister responsible for supplying Suharto with most of his weapons, I interviewed him, and asked: "Did it bother you personally that you were causing such mayhem and human suffering?"

"No, not in the slightest," he replied. "It never entered my head."

"I ask the question because I read you are a vegetarian and are seriously concerned with the way animals are killed."

"Yeah?"

"Doesn't that concern extend to humans?"

"Curiously not."

www.johnpilger. com

Note:
Sekadar mengingatkan, John Pilger adalah wartawan investigasi asal Inggris. Salah satu bukunya adalah 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy' yang antara lain mengungkapkan bagaimana kebijakan pemerintah Inggris turut ditentukan oleh para pelobi yang dibayar perusahaan-perusaha an besar ketimbang kepentingan publik.

BIG DREAMS OF A FUTURE LEADER

Students today leaders tomorrow, I know very well these words are not a joke. I felt from the very first time of my carrier in the higher education, students with a casual style, in the beginning, looked no one and have nothing. But after finishing their study in five, ten to 15 years they become someone and have something. So try always to treat them as good as you can give. Look into their eyes, read them, and guess what they should be in the future. Your prediction should not be too far from the reality.

Once in the middle of the semester, I asked the students:”What’s your dream ? Have you got any objectives in the next ten years ?”

Feel strange, wondering, stare at me. Empty face, nothing to say. Indeed, they don’t even think, that such a question could be even appeared in the class of Research Design, the so called subject. Class conducted in english, difficult in the beginning only, after mid-time, it works well without any problem.

And the assignment the week after is writing in a piece of paper, what is their dream, what they want to be in ten years. The following text chosen among 12 papers to be published, expecting the whole world witnesses the big dreams of a student.-

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MY DREAM, written by XXX, student in Mechanical Engineering Magister Program, University of Indonesia. In twenty years ahead:

1. I am sitting in a big mosque with my friends, in one of the villages in Lampung, teaching about 100 villagers, male and female, about Islam, management of life, etc. All of them are listening with excitement. They are workers in my chocolate fabric in that village. The cocoa is gathered from the villagers’ plantation, which is about 2000 hectares wide. All of us have been like one big family. The workers have good discipline and high motivation in working, because they realize that working is one of the way to humble to Allah. The villagers are paid with high salary, and they also have part in the corporation’s capital investment. The village itself is clean, beautiful, fresh air everywhere, no useless activities, the young people are good students in their free-payment school in that village.

Together, we are establishing Baitul Maal, that can help the farmers in other villages. We develop a healthy syariah-based economic condition. We are helping the poor, giving fund to the unmarried young men, and taking care of the orphants and sick people. Other area surround us begin to copy what we have done in our village. May Allah bless what we have done.

2. I am sitting in my veranda, in my pretty small house, looking at my flowers and the trees on my wide yard, while my wife and my daughters are preparing cookies on the table. We are waiting for my son, who is coming from Egypt, to take a vacation after his spring course term in Al Azhar Senior High School. In front of me, is my laptop, I’m finishing my fifth book, because the publisher has asked me to finish it right away. They called this morning, “Professor Yahya, excuse us, could you finish the book before next month?” So I replied,”Well, Insya Allah I will try, but you have to understand that I’m preparing the examination for my students in University of Lampung. So let’s see by the end of this month.., thank you.

3. It’s still 3 o’clock in the morning, when I’m walking together with my wife, my children, and also my parents on a very crowded street in Makkah Al Mukarromah. We are going to Masjidil Haram, to pray tahajjud and Subuh there. The sky is still dark, but a strong light of faith is flamming in every of us, hoping only for the mercy from Allah. This is the second time I go here to hajj, after I go hajj for the first time when I was taking my doctoral degree at King Saud University in Riyadh, sixteen years ago.

Aamiin.

From:

Ditulis oleh "my teacher" di/pada Desember 19, 2007

SOEHARTO DIED, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT???

Former Indonesian dictator Suharto dies

By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.

"He has died," Dr. Christian Johannes told The Associated Press, adding that he died at 1:10 p.m.

Dozens of doctors on Suharto's medical team had been rushed to the Pertamina Hospital in the capital, Jakarta, after his blood pressure fell suddenly Saturday night. Suharto had slipped out of consciousness for the first time in more than three weeks of treatment, doctors said.

Suharto had been in intensive care with lung, heart and kidney failure since he was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 4. Over the past week his physicians had spoken of a recovery, but by Sunday that had changed dramatically.

Suharto, who led a regime widely regarded as one of the 20th century's most brutal and corrupt, has lived a reclusive life in a comfortable villa in downtown Jakarta for the past decade.

He had been in and out of the hospital several times since being toppled by a pro-democracy uprising during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis for heart problems and internal bleeding.

Historians say up to 800,000 alleged communist sympathizers were killed during Suharto's rise to power from 1965 to 1968. His troops killed another 300,000 in military operations against independence movements in Papua, Aceh and East Timor.

Suharto's poor health had kept him from facing trial, and no one has been punished for the killings.

Corruption watchdog Transparency International has said Suharto and his family amassed billions of dollars in stolen state funds, allegations the family is fighting in court.

Source: AP

Kenangan 2004 bersama Pak Febi (tak pernah terlupakan)

Kamis, 19 Februari 2004	Berita Utama

Delapan Polisi Jadi Tersangka Kasus Pemukulan Mahasiswa JAKARTA- Delapan polisi menjadi tersangka kasus pemukulan mahasiswa yang tengah berdemo di depan gedung MA saat pembacaan putusan kakasi Akbar Tandjung pada 12 Februari lalu. Jumlah tersebut bisa bertambah. Demikian penjelasan Kabidhumas Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Prasetyo kepada wartawan di Polda, Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta Selatan, Rabu (18/2). Selama ini, ujar Pras, 32-an polisi telah diperiksa. Mereka terdiri atas empat perwira menengah, 10 perwira pertama, dan sisanya bintara. Delapan orang menjadi tersangka karena diduga menganiaya ringan dan berat serta melanggar Pasal 351 dan 352 KUHP. "Delapan aparat ini adalah empat dari Dalmas Polda, dua dari Samapta Polres Jakpus, dan dua dari Brimob Polda. Hari ini berkasnya diserahkan ke Reserse Umum," jelas Pras. Dia mengemukakan, para tersangka dapat berkembang jumlahnya karena kasusnya masih berproses. Kasus ini nantinya akan disidangkan di pengadilan negeri dan bila mereka dipastikan melanggar penganiayaan berat bisa ditahan. "Ini belum final, kami masih mengutamakan pemeriksaan pidana umum. Adapun sanksi administratif menyusul," ungkap Pras. Dia menjamin pihaknya akan bersikap netral. "Kalau bersalah, kami tahan. Kalau tidak percaya, tunggu saja di persidangan karena apa yang mereka lakukan sudah di luar perintah, di luar komando," tandasnya. Dia menjelaskan, ketika demo berlangsung di tengah pembacaan putusan kasasi Akbar, tidak ada perintah dari atas untuk memukul para pendemo. "Jadi kalau memang ada perintah pemukulan, anggota tidak bersalah. Akan tetapi, kasus ini murni kesalahan anggota dan kami bukan mau mengorbankan mereka," paparnya. Divisum di RSCM Sementara itu, seorang mahasiswa yang menjadi korban pemukulan polisi saat demo di depan gedung MA ketika sidang putusan kasasi Akbar Tandjung berlangsung, akan menjalani visum di RSCM. Dia adalah Febi Dwi Rahmadi, mahasiswa semester 10 Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat Universitas Indonesia. Febi menderita luka akibat pukulan di kepala dan pendarahan di mata. Bersama Delilah korban pemukulan lainnya Febi menjalani pemeriksaan di Polda Metro Jaya Jalan Sudirman Jakarta, Rabu (18/2) sebagai saksi korban. Kepada wartawan seusai pemeriksaan, Febi mengaku pandangannya sebelah kanan agak kabur karena dipukul dan diinjak-injak oleh 12-an aparat kepolisian. Selain itu, dia menerima lima jahitan di kepalanya. Dia juga mengalami luka di lutut kanan dan rusuk kiri kanan dan telinga kanan. "Hari ini saya juga akan mengecek penglihatan saya ke doker spesialitas mata di RSCM," katanya. Dia tetap berharap, perjuangan mahasiswa tidak berhenti sampai di sini. "Hal ini bisa ditindaklanjuti dengan penerapan hukum terhadap aparat yang terlibat pemukulan," ujarnya. Febi mengaku mengenali beberapa aparat yang menendang dan memukul dirinya. Ada aparat yang mengenakan baju biru donker (seragam Brimob) dan pakaian dinas biasa warna cokelat. Lalu materi pemeriksaan polisi apa saja? Dia menuturkan, ditanya soal berapa orang yang datang, tujuan datang ke MA, dan mengapa sampai terjadi benturan dengan polisi. "Selama diperiksa, di samping saya juga ada aparat yang diperiksa. Saya bisa mengenali beberapa orang di antara mereka yang memukul," ujarnya. Seperti diberitakan, dalam sidang putusan Akbar di MA yang akhirnya membebaskannya, terjadi bentrokan antara ribuan mahasiswa dan aparat polisi. Lebih kurang 70 mahasiswa menderita luka-luka. Bentrokan diduga terjadi akibat lemparan botol air minum mineral ke polisi. Sementara itu, Ketua BEM UI Ahmad Nur Hidayat mengatakan, Jumat nanti tiga rekannya yang lain juga akan dimintai keterangan polisi. Mereka adalah Wahyu Widyatmoko dari Fakultas Teknik, Ahmad Hidayatullah dan Muhidin dari Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat.(dtc-78j)

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