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Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list (fwd)
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> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 07:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Indonesia detains democracy activist after post to mailing list
> HotWired, The Netizen
> 19 August 1996
>
> Trouble in Paradise
> by Declan McCullagh ([email protected])
> 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 [email protected], are
functioning normally, with no unusual complaints or interruptions.