Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list (fwd)

Charles Gimon gimonca at skypoint.com
Mon Aug 19 13:50:57 PDT 1996


Forwarded message:
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at eff.org>
> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Subject: Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list


>    HotWired, The Netizen
>    19 August 1996
> 
>    Trouble in Paradise
>    by Declan McCullagh (declan at well.com)
>    Washington, DC, 18 August
>    
>    Indonesian democracy activists have taken their fight for freedom
>    to the Net, and the government doesn't approve.
>    
>    After distributing email messages about riots in Jakarta last month to
>    an international Indonesian-politics mailing list, Prihadi Beny
>    Waluyo, a lecturer at Duta Wacana Christian University, was arrested
>    and interrogated by the military. Since then, the mailing list has
>    been banned from the country and Waluyo has returned to his house,
>    where he remains under surveillance.
>    

[dan lain-lain...]

Exactly which mailing list was "banned from the country"? All the
Indonesian mailing lists I'm on, including apakabar at clark.net, are
functioning normally, with no unusual complaints or interruptions.








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