Subject: AI EXTRA 19/99 INDONESIA Possible
disappearance
Date: 16 Feb 99 17:27:55 -0500
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Further information on EXTRA 19/99 (ASA 21/09/99, 11 February 1999) - Possible
"disappearance"
INDONESIA
Anwar Yusuf (23)
Anwar Yusuf, a volunteer with a human rights organization, has been released from
custody after being kidnapped and held in incommunicado military detention.
Anwar Yusuf claims that he was arrested without a warrant from his home in East Aceh at
around 6.30 pm on 7 February 1999. He was detained after meeting with individuals
investigating the shooting of people by the Indonesian Armed Forces in East Aceh on 3
February. (See Extra 17/99 - ASA 21/07/99, 9 February 1999). During the trip Anwar Yusuf
visited the Arakundo river from which bodies of those believed to have been killed by the
military had been retrieved.
Following his arrest, Anwar Yusuf was taken to Koramil (Sub-district Military Command)
Idi Rayeuk. He was taken to a private house where he was interrogated by four military men
about his visit to Arakundo.
Anwar Yusuf claims that during the interrogation he was hit with a block, a broom and a
chair. Coffee was poured over him and he was threatened that he would be shot. He was
accused of being a member of the armed separatist group, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh
Movement) and made to squat on the floor with a block placed behind his knees. He was
forced to sleep sitting in a chair.
The following day he was taken to the East Aceh Kodim (District Military Command)
Headquarters in Langsa. On 8 February Anwar Yusuf was transferred to police custody and
then released without charge on 10 February.
During his time in custody, Anwar Yusuf's mother attempted to trace her son at both
Koramil and the police station where he was ultimately released from. Both police and
Koramil officials denied any knowledge of his whereabouts.
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