Indonesia solidarity action

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BY ANGELA LUVERA

SYDNEY — Emily Low, a Resistance activist, spoke at an Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) organised forum, Indonesia: students on the frontline fighting the IMF — an eyewitness report, at the University of Sydney on March 28. Low spent last year studying in Indonesia. She was active with the Student League for Democracy.

She spoke of the courage of the student democracy activists, who face physical repression from the Indonesian police and military.

Pip Hinman from ASIET provided an outline of the political situation in Indonesia, explaining that right-wing Golkar forces of the former dictator Suharto are attempting to make a come back.

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