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Maluku separatist leader flown to Jakarta for questioning
Jakarta Post, 10 May, 2001
AMBON, Maluku (JP): Authorities flew on Thursday a detained Maluku separatist leader to Jakarta for questioning, Maluku Police chief Brig. Gen. Firman Gani said.
The general said the Maluku Sovereignty Front (FKM) leader, Alex Manuputty, had been summoned by the National Police over his alleged separatist movement activities.
"Pak Alex will leave today (Thursday). It is better for the police to investigate him in Jakarta because after all there is a complete team of investigators there," Firman said at Maluku Police Headquarters.
Alex was accompanied by two officers from the Maluku Police internal affairs department.
Alex told local journalists that he was asked to clarify his activities and that he had been invited to Jakarta by National Police chief (Gen. Surojo Bimantoro).
Alex was arrested after briefly raising the separatist flag of the South Maluku Republic at his home in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, on April 25.
He was expected to arrive in Jakarta by plane later on Thursday, police said.
National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Didi Widayadi said in Jakarta on Thursday that Alex would be taken to the National Police Headquarters for further questioning to determine whether there was a political background to his case.
Didi said the questioning was expected to determine whether there were other "intellectual actors" behind the movement and any possible links it might have to foreign parties.
"Police will also cross-check facts from Maluku with documents which are currently at the National Police Headquarters," Didi said as quoted by AFP.
Alex, the executive chairman of the Front for the Sovereignty of Maluku (FKM), was arrested late last month for presiding over a brief 10-minute ceremony to hoist the South Maluku Republic flag in his front garden.
The flag was hoisted between the Indonesian flag and that of the United Nations and only flew briefly before being hauled down by police.
The ceremony was attended by more than 100 FKM supporters and included a reading of the April 25, 1950 proclamation of the South Maluku Republic.
The separatist movement was banned by Indonesia's first president Sukarno and its followers were allowed to either remain in the country or leave for the Netherlands, the former colonial ruler.
The movement has reappeared in Ambon following communal unrest, which has claimed more than 8,000 lives and driven up to half a million people from their homes over the past two years. (49/edt)
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