Screaming 'slaughter the PKI', Islamic youth burn communist flags in Blitar

Tempo.co - September 30, 2015

Hari Tri Wasono, Blitar – Thousands of members of the Islamic mass organisation Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) paramilitary youth wing Barisan Ansor Serbaguna (Banser) demonstrated in front of the Blitar regent's office in East Java on Wednesday September 30 to commemorate the bloody September 30, 1965 affair

Screaming "slaughter the PKI" (Indonesian Communist Party), the protesters wearing stripped camouflage fatigues pledged to utterly destroy any reemergence of communist ideas, which are often referred to as the New Style Communists (KGB).

"Slaughter the PKI's down to its roots", said protest coordinator Nurmuchlisin during a speech.

The atmosphere became tense when Banser members began shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great). The repeated recitations were followed by reverberations of the patriotic songs Gugur Bunga (Autumn Flowers) and Maju Tak Gentar (Onward Without Fear), which were played through a megaphone.

The chairperson of NU's Blitar chapter of the Anshor Youth Movement (GP Anshor), Imron Rosadi, believes that a number of organisations and government institutions have been infiltrated by communist ideas.

This is because after metamorphosing into the KGB, he said, the PKI movement is no longer visibly agitating its ideas in society. "If the government remains silent, a civil war will erupt like in 1965" said Rosadi.

There are also indications of the rise of communism through workers from China who are thronging to Indonesia [looking for work]. This is because the Chinese Communist Party once held the reins of power and shifted the economic system from one of capitalism to socialism.

The communist movement in China has similarities with Indonesia, namely recruiting peasants as a basis of struggle. "Chinese workers must leave Indonesia", said Rosadi.

Rosadi also slammed President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo plan to apologise to family members of the PKI who were victims of the 1965 affair. According to Rosadi, it would be inappropriate for PKI family members to receive an apology because they betrayed the nation.

During the action the Banser also set fire to flags with pictures of the hammer-and-sickle in the middle of the road.

Notes

Islamic mass organisations such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah played a significant part in the military led purge of alleged communists in the 1965-66 mass killings with many NU kiai (clerics) playing central roles in overseeing and directing the killings in coordination with military officers.

[Translated by James Balowski for the Indoleft News Service. The original title of the report was Pekik 'Sembelih PKI' Cekam Unjuk Rasa Banser di Blitar.]

Source: http://nasional.tempo.co/read/news/2015/09/30/078705266/pekik-sembelih-pki-cekam-unjuk-rasa-banser-di-blitar.

PKI to gather sympathisers by 'hitching a ride' on Slank concert

Tribune News - September 26, 2015

Jakarta – Former Army Strategic Reserves Command (green berets) Chief of Staff (Kaskostrad) Kivlan Zen claims that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is trying to rebuild its forces in order to reestablish a presence in Indonesia.

PKI sympathisers are planning to hold a mass meeting at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium (SUGBK) in Senayan, Jakarta on Wednesday September 30 where they will join a concert by the popular Indonesian rock band Slank.

Zen received this information through an SMS message on his cell phone last week. The message was in the form of a call to all former PKI sympathisers to gather on September 30 at the SUGBK to take part in the Slank concert.

The message also appealed to sympathisers to wear red T-shirts with pictures of the hammer-and-sickle or a red flag on them.

"There has been an appeal to former PKI [members] and followers of the PKI's ideas to gather at the Slank concert on September 30. I've already checked this on the ground. The [plan] to hitch a ride [on the concert] really exists", said Zen in Jakarta on Saturday September 26.

Social media has been enlivened by a poster with the words "30 September Movement, Slank Two Finger Salute Concert, dispose the DPR [House of Representatives] Because They're Incapable of Running the Country".

According to Zen this is an attempt by PKI sympathisers to hitch a ride on the Slank concert. Even though the band made famous by the song Too Sweet has denied the claim, Zen says that PKI sympathisers will still gather at the concert.

Zen explained that the PKI sympathisers will gather at the SUGBK then head to the DPR building to call for DPR members to resign and the dissolution of the DPR.

"If it goes ahead they will demand that the DPR be dissolved. Because the DPR will prevent [President] Joko Widodo from making an apology to PKI sympathisers and revoke the Tap MPRS Number 25 1966", he said.

The Tap MPRS or Provisional People's Consultative Assembly Decree Number XXXV/1996 formally legitimises a ban on the PKI and the spread of communism in Indonesia.

Meanwhile if President Widodo apologies to former PKI members then the sympathisers of the party symbolised by the hammer-and-sickle will regard this as meaning that they are no longer a banned party and can reestablish a presence in Indonesia.

[Translated by James Balowski for the Indoleft News Service. The original title of the report was Kivlan Zein: PKI Dompleng Konser Slank untuk Kumpulkan Simpatisan.]

Source: http://www.tribunnews.com/nasional/2015/09/26/kivlan-zein-pki-dompleng-konser-slank-untuk-kumpulkan-simpatisan.

Only 29 percent of mining companies pay tax

Detik Finance - September 7, 2015

Lani Pujiastuti, Bogor – Currently there are 10,922 companies holding Mining Business Permits (IUPs) in Indonesia. Of this total, only 29 percent pay tax.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) research and development directorate staff member Abdul Aziz revealed that data from the Ministry of the Environment on the status of the mining concession zones based on the results of a map overlay of national forestry regions shows that mining concessions throughout Indonesia cover 38,894,231 hectors comprising 7,468 mining ventures.

He then showed data from the Tax Directorate General's office for the period 2010-2012 indicating that only 29 percent of IUP holders pay tax.

"IUP holders represent 7,834 companies from a total of 10,922 IUPs that have been issued. Only 76 percent have NPWPs (taxpayer registration numbers) or a total of 5,984 IUPs. Unfortunately, although they have NPWPs, those that diligently pay tax are only 29 percent of all IUP holders or a total of 2,304 IUPs", explained Abdul Aziz during the Journalists EITI Workshop at the Novotel Hotel in Bogor, West Java, on Monday September 7.

As a consequence, between 2014 and 2015 there were 1,087 whose IUPs were revoked. The majority were in Jambi (South Sumatra) totalling 171 IUPs, Central Sulawesi with 148 IUPs and East Kalimantan totalling 96 IUPs.

Aziz added that based on data from the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources for August 2015, IUPs with a Clean and Clear (CnC) status only numbered 58 percent of all IUPs.

"The IUPs with a Clean and Clear status totaled 6,264 representing 3,787 from the minerals sector and 2,477 from the coal sector. There are still 42 percent that have yet to obtain a CnC status or a total of 4,563 IUP [holders] from the mineral sector and 3,151 from the coal sector. This includes 1,739 new IUPs from rock based commodities", he explained.

Aziz added that as a result of the large number of mining companies not paying tax, the state has suffered trillions of rupiah in financial losses.

"Between 2003 and 2011 unpaid [tax] obligations from IUPs amounted to as much as 3.342 trillion rupiah, PKP2B [Work Activity and Coal Mining Agreements] amounting to as much as 3.433 trillion rupiah and Work Contracts amounting to as much as 1.532 trillion rupiah", he said. (rrd/rrd)

[Translated by James Balowski for the Indoleft News Service. The original title of the report was Dari 10.922 Perusahaan Tambang, Hanya 29 percent yang Taat Bayar Pajak.]

Source: http://finance.detik.com/read/2015/09/07/180324/3012479/1034/dari-10922-perusahaan-tambang-hanya-29-yang-taat-bayar-pajak.