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Jenderal Hendropriyono Akui "Command Responsibility" di Pembunuhan Munir. Mengatakan Korban Talangsari "Suicide" alias bunuh diri. Mari simak tulisan Allan Nairn yang mengungkap pernyataan kontroversial Hendro Priyono.

Setuju untuk diadili atas Kekejaman; Implikasi hukum untuk As'ad, Wiranto, CIA. Hendropriyono: Part 1.
Oleh Allan Nairn

Jenderal A.M. Hendropriyono adalah salah satu tokoh TNI yang paling kuat di Indonesia, ia mengakui "tanggung jawab komando" dalam pembunuhan aktivis hak asasi terkemuka di negara itu.

Dalam dua wawancara malam hari di rumah Jakarta pada 16 Oktober Hendropriyono membuat pernyataan soal penuntutan dan dapat menciptakan masalah bagi CIA, Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI), dan untuk Joko Widodo - Jokowi - presiden baru Indonesia.

Hendropriyono adalah penasihat kunci Jokowi, adalah pemimpin inti dari TNI, dan bekerja dengan CIA saat unit BIN, membunuh aktivis Munir.

Secara rinci, dalam on-the-record diskusi dengan saya (Allan Nairn) dengan Hendropriyono, mungkin secara tidak sengaja, (Hendro Priyono) menutup pertanyaan.

Pada saat itu lebih dia telah meninggalkan jabatan di TNI, dan telah setuju untuk diadili atas tiga kekejaman utama: pembunuhan Munir, kampanye 1999 teror yang menghancurkan Timor Timur, dan pada tahun 1989 (yang dikenal dengan) peristiwa Talangsari pembantaian pada jamaah Warsidi yang menyebabkan Hendro mendapat julukan "Jagal dari Lampung."

Hendropriyono juga akhirnya setuju bahwa ia menyerukan pembebasan semua dokumen internal yang dibuat oleh pemerintah Indonesia dan AS yang berkaitan dengan kasus ini.

Dengan mengakui "tanggung jawab komando" dan membuka pintu dengan fakta-fakta tertentu, Hendro Priyono menjadikan tuntutan hukum beralih kepada mantan Pangab TNI Jend (Purn) Wiranto dan pejabat BIN As'ad - yang telah pindah ke tengah panggung politik Indonesia dibalik kabinet Jokowi.

"Pertemuan dengan Hendro Priyono tak terduga dan kadang-kadang aneh. Sesi pertama dimulai dengan dia mencoba untuk menyanjung saya (Allan Nairn), dan berakhir dengan saya mengatakan kepadanya bahwa saya berharap pembunuh Munir akan dipenjara seumur hidup." tulis Allan Nairn.
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Berikut tulisan asli yang diunggah Allannairn.org:

By Allan Nairn
Jakarta

General A.M. Hendropriyono, one of Indonesia's most powerful figures, has admitted "command responsibility" in the assassination of the country's leading rights activist.


In two nighttime interviews at his Jakarta mansion on October 16 Hendropriyono made statements that appear to open him to prosecution and may create problems for the CIA, the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI), and for Joko Widodo -- Jokowi -- Indonesia's new president.


Hendropriyono is a key Jokowi adviser, is a core leader of the TNI, and was working with the CIA when his intelligence unit, BIN, killed the activist Munir.


In detailed, on-the-record discussions with me Hendropriyono, perhaps inadvertently, ended up submitting himself to close questioning.


By the time it was over he had abandoned some of his and TNI's longest standing defenses, and had agreed to stand trial for three major atrocities: the Munir murder, the 1999 terror campaign that devastated occupied East Timor, and the 1989 Talangsari massacre that earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Lampung."


Hendropriyono also ended up agreeing that he was calling for the release of all internal documents held by the Indonesian and US governments relating to these cases.


By admitting "command responsibility" and opening to the door to certain facts, Hendropriyono places legal pressure on two men -- the general, Wiranto and the intelligenge man, As'ad -- who have moved to the center stage of Indonesian politics after being touted for the Jokowi cabinet.


The encounter with Hendropriyono was unexpected and at times bizarre.  The first session started with him trying to flatter me, and ended with me telling him that I hoped Munir's killers would be jailed for life.   


In between, the discussion was, at times, complex.  It will be described in several installments.


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I had called Hendropriyono's cell phone, from New York, on October 14 hoping that I could get a comment from him on his role in killing civilians.


During last summer's Indonesian presidential campaign that resulted in Jokowi's election, I had repeatedly called for Hendro to be tried for crimes against humanity.  


But what got far more attention, indeed, at times saturation coverage, was my running confrontation with Jokowi's opponent, General Prabowo.  I had published an off-the record interview with Prabowo in which Prabowo ruminated on fascist dictatorship, talked about how to do massacres, discussed his extensive work with the Pentagon/ US Intelligence
, and insulted the highly regarded cleric and late President, Gus Dur.  


Prabowo demanded that the army capture me, called me a liar, an American imperialist, an "enemy of the state," and pointed out -- correctly -- that the TNI had previously captured me seven times and that Suharto had banned me from the country as "a threat to national security."  Responding to Prabowo, TNI declared that I had become an "Operational Target" (TO).


I challenged the army to grab me, challenged Prabowo to bring me to court, and -- on the matter of American Imperialism -- challenged Prabowo to join me in calling for the living US presidents to be put on trial for atrocities, and for the US mining giant, Freeport McMoRan, to be expelled from Indonesia. Prabowo backed down on all fronts and received ridicule, so finally, on the campaign's last day, he filed criminal charges against me.  His aides later explained that among other things the charges related to "inciting hatred of the army," and, after the election results were in, "causing Prabowo to lose."


It was against this background that Hendropriyono, one of the pillars of the Jokowi campaign, indicated that rather than talking on the phone he wanted to talk in person, in Jakarta.  I was heading to Jakarta anyway, and within hours of entering the country, went to Hendro's corner estate in Senayan, Jakarta.


As he entertained a delegation from Malaysian intelligence, and I waited in a sitting room, a member of Hendro's family told me that Jokowi had already offered him three ministries, including MENKOPOLKAM, the top military/ intelligence post.  Relatedly, just that day, Hendro's son-in-law, General Andika, had been announced as the new head of PASAMPRES, Jokowi's personal security detail.  In a cabinet in front of me was a photo of Hendro with Generals Wiranto and Sutiyoso, and to the right a photo of Hendro with his old aide, General Susilo, who later became President.  In between was a bust of Napoleon -- a Hendro favorite, a family member explained.


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After he ushered me in, Hendro started by saying that he was "honored" to meet and receive me because I had hurt Prabowo in the campaign.  He suggested that Prabowo was "totalitarian."


I replied that I attacked all the generals, including him.  Hendropriyono said he knew that, and said that if he was not mistaken I had attacked him particularly for Talangsari.


I said that was true, but I had attacked him for many things, also including Munir and 1999 Timor.


Hendro wanted to talk about Talangsari first.  


By all accounts -- including Hendro's to me, what had happened there had been a bloodbath, but he started by saying: "There was no other way to do it, Allan Nairn."


He said that as regional commander he controlled both the army and the National Police BRIMOB, and moved in to confront religious militants who were armed with "bows and arrows."


He said "They said I was togut. Togut means extremist who will always finish the Muslims..."


He said of the rifles vs. arrows showdown, "Of course ... we won because we were stronger."


Hendro said: "We encircled the huts that they built in the village together with the villagers.  Nobody was out (of the huts) because of forbidden by their chiefs, by their leaders... I said that 'we will attack you and I ask you to go out from the house and surrender.'"


Then at some point, by Hendro's account -- and that of everyone else -- the encircled huts went up in flames.

Survivors and witnesses say Hendro's men lit the fires, and shot and tortured unarmed villagers. 


Their testimony to the government human rights commission (KOMNASHAM) and to human rights groups like Munir's Kontras is detailed. 

But, to my astonishment, as we sat there in his Jakarta mansion, Hendropriyono said that the dead at Talangsari had actually killed themselves.


"Suddenly they burned their own huts.  That made so many people die," he said. 


(He estimated the death toll at 100, maybe 200, overwhelmingly unarmed, with many women and children)


I asked incredulously, "So you're claiming they killed themselves?"...


"Yes, they burned, they burned their huts."


"In effect you're saying they committed suicide."


"Yes ... 


"Bunuh diri?" ('Committed suicide?'), I asked in Indonesian.


"Bunuh diri" ('Committed suicide'), General Hendropriyono replied.


He suggested they might have done this out of fanaticism.  


I returned to the point, seeking clarity: 


"Jadi, bapak kata bahwa orang itu bunuh diri?" ('So you're saying that those people committed suicide?')


"Bunuh diri," -- suicide, Hendro replied with finality.


So I said: 


"As I'm sure you know, there are many witness testimonies from survivors of Talangsari given to KOMNASHAM and others that say that those hundred or 200 were killed by your troops, were killed by you in a massacre.  So why not face this in a trial?  Would you agree to be put on trial and make the argument in a court like you've just made to me?"


"Yeah, of course it was not true," Hendro replied, skirting the question.


I said: "You could say that in court.  You could tell it to the judge."


But again, Hendro did not want to answer.


Instead, he digressed.  He started with an attack on "the Indonesian human rights organizations," i.e. Munir's Kontras, and similar groups.


Hendro said that the human rights groups had paid off witnesses to implicate him, a charge that was ironic since it had been extensively reported that Hendro himself had made payments to witnesses, for, he said at the time, religious purposes.  


(When I later mentioned Hendro's payoff charge to a table full of Kontras people, they were shocked -- and couldn't stop laughing; "As if we had the cash!," one exclaimed.)


But the thing that most bothered Hendro was the fact that the rights groups, including KOMNASHAM, had agreed to hear testimony from child survivors of Talangsari, ie. from people who were still minors at the time of the inferno.


He was evidently upset that these surviving children had been taken seriously.


They "were still kids," he said.  They "didn't know what was going on."


It was, of course, the case that Talangsari child witnesses were resorted to.  


But this was because Hendro and his men had killed their parents, according to the rights groups. 

And in fact there was testimony from adult survivors as well, and in any event child testimony was often used in such cases.  

In 2013 I was called to testify in a genocide trial in Guatemala.  In the dock was the US-backed ex dictator, General Efrain Rios Montt.

In that case, then-child testimony was used extensively.  Rios Montt was convicted of planned massacres and sentenced to 80 years (the oligarchy later froze the case; the General remains under house arrest.)

General Hendropriyono didn't want such testimony here.


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But while complaining about the children, General Hendro appeared to slip up.


He himself reopened the issue of possibly being compelled to stand trial.


"I'm quite sure that if we go to court, (the) court will go and look at the witness(es)," he remarked, his point being that the court would disregard the children and false, paid-off witnesses.


So I jumped in: "So then what you're saying is that it should go to court, and you should be put on trial for Talangsari, and you do not fear that, you would accept that?  You would accept being put on trial for Talangsari?


Hendro, paused, recoiled and mumbled: "I cannot, mmm, I think I have..."

 
And then he said, incredibly: " If anybody instead of me -- say like yourself -- if you were me at that time I'm quite sure that you would do the same thing."
 
"No, I would not do the same thing," I replied.  "I would not do the same thing."

"What would you do?  Tell me, what you would do if you were me," the General insisted.

"I would not kill people," I said, but I wanted to get back to the point:
 
"But I want to make sure I understand what you're saying.  I just want to get a clear understanding of it.  Are you saying that you would accept being put on trial for Talangsari?  And then in the court you would make your arguments and you would bring forth your evidence?"

"Oh yes of course!," Hendropriyono replied.
 
This appeared to be the breakthrough.
 
But I wanted to nail it down, and he hedged.
 
"So you would accept being put on trial for Talangsari?"

"At that time," he replied.
 
He was referring to 1989, the time of the massacre.

"I'm talking about now," I said. "Because that time has passed. I'm talking about now."
 
At this point, Hendropriyono's emotional -- and legal -- defenses appeared to break.

"Everything that I did," he said, "everything that they accused me (of), there is nothing for me to prefer not to accept.  I will face."
 
The breakthrough had indeed happened.  General Hendropriyono had agreed to face trial.
 
After decades of the TNI -- and himself -- erecting defenses, excuses, for not facing justice, this commanding general -- and CIA partner -- had set a precedent.
 
"Because everything that I did, I'm not animal, I'm human," he said.
 
"And you know, I feel, I have children, I have family, and I can feel how they feel.  So to me, I'm responsible for everything that I did and there is nothing that I will refuse.  I understand what you mean.  If there is a court for me for human rights violations, I will accept."
 
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This Talangsari back-and-forth set the pattern for our discussion of other atrocities: Hendropriyono reaching -- sometimes deeply implausibly -- to assert that the corpses in question weren't exactly, really, his fault, but at the same time owning up to the fact that, in the end, he had been in charge, and that it was appropriate for he, the senior General, to be placed on trial for murder.

This concession was fundamental, and it opened doors.  
 
It had particularly significant repercussions for our later discussion regarding Munir.
 

Bloody Hands and a Crucial Victory

As he was in the campaign, Jokowi is, in government, surrounded by killers.  

He could have kept them all out, but he chose not to.  

The blood on their hands is now on his.  

But that does not necessarily mean that the killers will, in the end, prevail. 


(Though it is quite possible that they will kill more civilians in the meantime).  

This is an epic struggle for power.  

If people put pressure on Jokowi there's a decent chance they can win concessions.

Indeed that has apparently happened already, in a crucially important way.  

As of noon Friday, General Wiranto had been written in as MENKOPOLKAM, a coordinating post that in the hands of a man like him could have given him vast de facto power over the army, police, and intelligence.

But according to very high level people, Wiranto was removed at the last minute -- Saturday night -- specifically in response to objections from mobilized critics/ activists. (See Friday - Sunday blog entries and Tweets at @AllanNairn14).

At the same time, though, Jokowi gave power to General Ryamizard, the TNI's ideologist for killing civilians
, a man who oversaw Aceh massacres and praised the army assassins of a Papua leader as "heroes."


The chief of BIN (intelligence) was not announced Sunday with the cabinet posts, but As'ad, implicated in the Munir assassination, is said to still be in the running.


Allan Nairn
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Akhir Hendropriyono: Part 1.

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Melawan Lupa (1): Kisah Peristiwa Talangsari

Melawan Lupa (2): Nama dan Saksi Palsu Talangsari

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