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PMI CONDUCTS HUMANITARIAN PROBE INTO PRIOK RIOT
Jakarta, April 18 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) is conducting a humanitarian investigation into last Wednesday's deadly riot in Tanjungpriok, North Jakarta, its chairman M Jusuf Kalla.
"The PMI has received a request from the Jakarta provincial administration to conduct a humanitarian investigation. And now we are doing it," he said here on Sunday.
He said what the PMI had been doing was limited to humanitarian investigation rather than to seek the culprits. Neither would it investigate the land dispute that had triggered the clash.
"So don't misconstrue it. The PMI will only confine the probe to humanitarian problems to prevent the case from recurrence," he said.
He said the PMI would cooperate with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and academics in conducting the humanitarian investigation.
The former vice president said he inspected the scene of the deadly riot and visited victims treated at a nearby hospital on Saturday.
The clash broke out on Wednesday morning when about a thousand public order officers marched to the graveyard complex built on land owned by port company PT Pelindo II where the tomb of respected Muslim scholar Habib Hasan bin Muhammad Al Hadad, more popularly known as "Mbah Priok", is located.
The Jakarta city government said the public order guards were mobilized to the complex to demolish illegal buildings erected within the complex.
The dead victims were identified as M. Tajudin, W. Soepono and Israel Jaya, all of them public order officers. The injured consist of 10 police officers, 69 public order officers, and 55 civilians.
Besides human victims, 46 vehicles belonging to public order officers and the police were burned in the riot.
"The PMI has received a request from the Jakarta provincial administration to conduct a humanitarian investigation. And now we are doing it," he said here on Sunday.
He said what the PMI had been doing was limited to humanitarian investigation rather than to seek the culprits. Neither would it investigate the land dispute that had triggered the clash.
"So don't misconstrue it. The PMI will only confine the probe to humanitarian problems to prevent the case from recurrence," he said.
He said the PMI would cooperate with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and academics in conducting the humanitarian investigation.
The former vice president said he inspected the scene of the deadly riot and visited victims treated at a nearby hospital on Saturday.
The clash broke out on Wednesday morning when about a thousand public order officers marched to the graveyard complex built on land owned by port company PT Pelindo II where the tomb of respected Muslim scholar Habib Hasan bin Muhammad Al Hadad, more popularly known as "Mbah Priok", is located.
The Jakarta city government said the public order guards were mobilized to the complex to demolish illegal buildings erected within the complex.
The dead victims were identified as M. Tajudin, W. Soepono and Israel Jaya, all of them public order officers. The injured consist of 10 police officers, 69 public order officers, and 55 civilians.
Besides human victims, 46 vehicles belonging to public order officers and the police were burned in the riot.
