From: John M Miller
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:03 PM
Subject: [indonesia-act] Thursday in NYC - Protest statesman award to Indonesia's President
SBY Is No Statesman!
Join Us for Peaceful Picket
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 5:30-7:30pm
The Pierre Hotel, 2 E 61st St., New York City
Oppose the World Statesman Award to President Yudhoyono
from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation
contact ETAN for more information
Bring your signs and banners highlighting the ongoing human rights issues in Indonesia, including attacks on religious freedom, lack of justice for past human rights violations,
and ongoing rights abuses in West Papua and elsewhere.
(Should the Appeal of Conscience Foundation withdraw the award,
we will hold a celebration outside the hotel.)
Background information here
Download, print and distribute flyer promoting demonstration ( PDF)
Event on Facebook
Urge the Appeal of Conscience Foundation to withdraw its award to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He is no statesman.
Sign the petition today: http://s.shr.lc/19349F6
Thank you to all who have signed so far. Please spread the word, and please donate to support ETAN. http://www.etan.org/etan/donate.htm Join Us for Peaceful Picket
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 5:30-7:30pm
The Pierre Hotel, 2 E 61st St., New York City
Oppose the World Statesman Award to President Yudhoyono
from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation
contact ETAN for more information
Bring your signs and banners highlighting the ongoing human rights issues in Indonesia, including attacks on religious freedom, lack of justice for past human rights violations,
and ongoing rights abuses in West Papua and elsewhere.
(Should the Appeal of Conscience Foundation withdraw the award,
we will hold a celebration outside the hotel.)
Background information here
Download, print and distribute flyer promoting demonstration ( PDF)
Event on Facebook
Urge the Appeal of Conscience Foundation to withdraw its award to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He is no statesman.
Sign the petition today: http://s.shr.lc/19349F6
Thank you.
Background
The Appeal of Conscience Foundation plans to give a highly controversial World Statesman Award to Indonesia's President Yudhoyono on Thursday, May 30 in New York City. The award has generated heated controversy in Indonesia, inspiring demonstrations and other protests. More than 6000 signatures on several petitions have been gathered from inside and outside Indonesia opposing the award. Here's why:
When President Yudhoyono first took office, he promised that his administration would promote human rights and tolerance. Nine years later, the prospects for accountability for past rights violations have receded; religious intolerance has grown. Indonesia's security forces have become increasingly abusive in West Papua. Police and soldiers who violate human rights are rarely held accountable. Serious human rights violations by members of the military are tried in military courts where soldiers, if convicted, receive light sentences.
Recent examples of religious persecution include the March 21 demolition of the HKBP Taman Sari church in Bekasi after an order from the regional government. Four Ahmadiyah places of worship were closed within a month in West Java. Last August, members of the Shia community in Sampang, East Java, were forced from their homes members of the majority Sunni attacked them for so-called blasphemy. They continue to struggle in a makeshift camp in a sports stadium.
In 2006, President Yudhoyono issued a regulation on building houses of worship that makes it extremely difficult for religious minorities to construct their buildings. He signed a law that allows the listing of only six religions on Indonesian ID cards, basically discriminating against more than 350 other small religions. In 2009, Yudhoyono sent his cabinet members to defend the blasphemy law when it was challenged at the Constitutional Court. They mobilized Muslim militias to harass the petitioners and their lawyers. In April 2010, the Constitutional Court upheld the law, which provides criminal penalties for those who express religious beliefs that deviate from the six officially-recognized religions. The court said it is lawful to restrict minority beliefs because it allows for the "maintenance of public order." In 2008, Yudhoyono issued an anti-Ahmadiyah decree, threatening to five years jail term for anyone who "propagates" the group's teachings.
An ad hoc tribunal to investigate and prosecute the 1997-98 the disappearance of human rights activists has yet to be established, though it has been approved by the legislature. Yudhoyono's own coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs and Attorney General have rejected the official human rights commission's findings that the government's anti-Communist purges of 1965 and 1966 - which included mass killings of up to one million people, enslavement, torture, rape, and enforced disappearance - constituted a crime against humanity. The truth commission and human rights courts authorized by the 2006 law on Aceh have yet to be established. There has been no accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Indonesian forces in Timor-Leste, where as many as 183,000 were killed, or West Papua, where an estimated 100,000 have died.
On taking office, President Yudhoyono declared that solving the September 2004 murder of Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's best known human rights activist, would be a test of "whether Indonesia had changed." The President and Indonesia have failed the test. He has refused to release the report of the fact-finding team he set up early in his Presidency. The murder involved the national intelligence agency and serving and former military officers; none of them have been brought to justice.
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Donate today. Read ETAN's fund appeal: http://etan.org/etan/2013appeal.htm
John M. Miller, National Coordinator
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
Phone: +1-718-596-7668
Mobile phone: +1-917-690-4391
Email: etan@etan.org Skype: john.m.miller
Twitter: @etan009 Website: www.etan.org
2012 Recipient of the Order of Timor (Ordem Timor)
Send a blank e-mail message to info@etan.org to for information on other ETAN electronic resources on East Timor and Indonesia
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SBY is no statesman! Sign petition today: http://s.shr.lc/19349F6
Donate today. Read ETAN's fund appeal: http://etan.org/etan/2013appeal.htm
2012 Recipient of the Order of Timor (Ordem Timor)
John M. Miller, National Coordinator
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
Phone: +1-718-596-7668 Mobile phone: +1-917-690-4391
Email: etan@igc.org Skype: john.m.miller Twitter: @etan009
www.etan.org
Send a blank e-mail message to info@etan.org to for information on other ETAN electronic resources on East Timor and Indonesia
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