REPRESSION OF A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT IN MALUKU:
FREEDOM OF POLITICAL EXPRESSION
Human Rights Watch renewed its call for the Indonesian government to release without delay all persons detained for exercising the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and to remove archaic laws that criminalize these rights.
Human Rights Watch demands release of Papuan, Moluccan activists
Mon, 01/23/2012
Amnesty International Minta Tapol di Papua & Maluku Dibebaskan
Selasa, 06/12/2011 16:42 WIB
Human Rights Watch calls on Obama to tackle Indonesian abuses
AsiaOne Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011
Human Rights Watch said Obama must address "the lack of accountability of security forces for continuing abuses" as well as the 90 prisoners in the restive provinces of Papua and Maluku jailed for peaceful political activity.

Indonesia's Anti-terror unit deals out own Terror  
September 13, 2010
* FLYING FLAGS AND FLOATING BALLOONS HARDLY SEEMS TO QUALIFY AS A "HIGH-INTENSITY CRIME" 
Australia & US (United States of America) trained and equiped this counter-terrorism unit: Special Detachment 88 and Australia is still funding them with millions of dollars a year! Also funded by US and other foreign countries.
Densus 88 is trained by CIA, FBI, US Secret Service, Australian Special Forces and other intelligence agencies.

The pro-independence dance at Merdeka Stadium in Ambon
On 29 June 2007, at least 23 men performed the ‘Cakalele’ dance (a traditional Maluku wardance) in front of Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Ambon, Maluku province, Eastern Indonesia. At the end of their performance, the Moluccan dancers displayed the ‘Benang Raja’ flag, symbol of South Maluku independence, before central government, foreign and provincial officials.  Police arrested 22 of the dancers, subjecting them to severe beatings and torture during their interrogation and detention. They were sentenced to between seven and 20 years’ imprisonment.


Amnesty International UK is campaining for Maluku political activist: Johan Teterissa

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Johan Teterissa was tortured by police. Despite being seriously injured, Johan Teterissa has never received adequate medical treatment and is now in constant pain. In addition to failing to provide adequate medical care from prison doctors, the prison authorities have also denied access to external medical treatment. On 15 July 2010, an independent doctor visited the prison to try to see Johan Teterissa but was turned away.

Call on the Indonesian authorities to grant Johan Teterissa access to medical care

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FKM - RMS Torture Survivors Speak Out

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Johan Teterissa, born 1961, was an elementary school teacher in Aboru village, near Ambon, before he was imprisoned. He is a member of the RMS and on April 3, 2008, was sentenced to life in prison for treason. His purported crime was leading 27 other dancers holding RMS flags to protest Indonesian rule on June 29, 2007, in front of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merdeka Stadium in Ambon. All of the dancers were immediately arrested and taken to the police Detachment 88/Anti-Terror headquarters in Tantui, Ambon, where they were subjected to torture.

According to Teterissa, Detachment 88/Anti-Terror police officers demanded that he sign a statement calling on the Moluccas Sovereignty Front (Front Kedaulatan Maluku, FKM) to disband. The FKM is a banned organization that promotes the creation of an independent RMS, and Teterissa is an FKM board member in Aboru, Haruku Island.

He says that when he refused to sign the document, police beat him almost continuously for at least 12 hours every day for 11 days. Several beat him with iron rods and stones, and slashed him with a bayonet. On June 30, 2007, four Detachment 88 officials beat him repeatedly with sticks and outside the unit’s office, kicked and pushed him down to the nearby Ambon sea, and continued beating him in the water. In another instance, officials kicked Teterissa out of a second floor room and down a set of stairs. Teterissa told Human Rights Watch that his chest was crushed, a number of his ribs were broken, and he was covered with black bruises.

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Ferdinand Waas, born in 1948, was an Indonesian Army officer, stationed in East Timor in the 1980s and 1990s. After his retirement at the rank of captain, he joined the RMS. He allowed RMS activists to use his house to plan the pro-independence dance at Merdeka Stadium in June 2007. He was arrested and in October 2007, an Ambon district court found him guilty of treason and sentenced him to ten years in prison. He was arrested along with the dancers at the stadium and detained at the Detachment 88/Anti-Terror in Tantui, Ambon. He said police officers beat him with billiard sticks, pieces of wood, and iron bars. “They knew I was an army captain, so I think they beat me harder, as if I was younger,” he said.

2010-10-10 Ferdinand Waas is in a state of heart pain and temporary in care  in ICCU Room of the  Public  Hospital in Kudamati Ambon, as a result of torture and beatings inflicted upon him by Detachment 88. > see photo below : His wife next to him in the public hospital.
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Ambon, June 29th, 2007
President Susilo BambangYudhoyono commissioned Detachment 88, locally known as DENSUS 88, to tackle hard the peaceful political-activists and punished them as terrorists. The elite police counter-terroris unit is financed, trained and equipped by USA and Australia.
Fresh torture claims hit Indonesia
Al Jazeera 28 Jan 2011
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's president, says there have been no incidents of torture since he came to power in 2004.
But Al Jazeera has heard evidence from several prisoners who claim they were abused while in police custody.
Step Vaessen reports from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
High price of speaking up in Indonesia 27 May 2008