Detik.com
- February 18, 2009
Indra
Subagja, Jakarta – The University of Indonesia (UI) will not be giving
permission for a concert event titled “Tribute to Munir” at its Depok campus in
West Jakarta on February 20. Not surprisingly this has given rise to protests
by the wife of the late Munir, Suciwati.
“Their
reasons were brief, odd. Their reasons have no grounds, the event is political,
what’s political about it?”, said Suciwati when contacted by telephone on
Wednesday February 18.
The
university has asked that the event be postponed until December 10, 2009. “They
say its [too] close to the elections and security disturbance, this is in fact
a humanitarian concert. Our event is very different”, she explained.
Suciwati
also plans to send a letter explaining the nature of the event to the
University of Indonesia rectorate. “The thing that is saddening is this kind of
behaviour by campus officials”, she explained. (ndr/nrl)
[Translated
by James Balowski. The original title of the report was “Suciwati protests
banning of Munir event at UI”.]
