The Extent of The Rapes

1. Locations of the Rapes
   Table 1 shows the extent of the places where the rapes and the sexual abuses took place in Jakarta and the surroundings. Note the pattern. If the riot, the massive destruction and burning in May 1998 happened in all areas of Jakarta, the rapes only happened in West Jakarta, North Jakarta, and the other areas where the Chinese are concentrated to live and to work. We intentionally show this pattern so that we may note it.
   Table 1
   Comparation Locations of The Massive Destruction-and-the Burning Down
   And The Locations of The rapes-and-the Sexual Abuse
   

   No.	Area	Example of the locations of the riots	Example of the location of rape
   1.	Central Jakarta	Wahid Hasyim (Tanah Abang), Jiung (Kemayoran), Samanhudi (Pasar Baru), Galur, Cempaka Putih, Sumur Batu, Salemba, Tanah Abang, Harmoni
   2.	South Jakarta	Cinere, Pasar Minggu, Cipete, Fatmawati, Kalibata, Mampang, Bintaro.
   3.	East Jakarta	Pasar Rebo, Kramat Jati, Kampung Melayu, Klender, Jatinegara, Matraman, Rawamangun, Kalimalang, Penas
   4.	West Jakarta	Palmerah, Kebayoran Lama, Grogol, Roxy, Green Garden, Bojong Indah, Jelambar, Jembatann Dua, Jembatan Lima, Gajahmada, Glodok, Cengkareng	Angke,Jelambar, Jembatan Dua, Jembatan Tiga, Jembatan Lima, Jembatan Besi, Cengkareng, Glodok, Kota
   5.	North Jakarta	Kelapa Gading, Mangga Dua, Pantai Indah Kapuk
   6.	North Jakarta	Depok, Bekasi, Lenteng Agung, Tangerang, Ciputat, Ciledug, Cikarang.	Tangerang, Bekasi

Source: The Documentation of "Volunteers Team For Humanity" (Tim Relawan untuk Kemanusiaan), the witness of the victims and the witnesses.
In a shorter description, the concentration of the areas where the rapes and the sexual abuse happened appears in the following picture. It is clear that the rapes and the sexual abuse were concentrated in West Jakarta, North Jakarta, and other locations around Jakarta.
2. The Modus Operandi of The Rapes
   As mentioned above, the rapes and riots happened at the same time. The patterns of the rapes were very similar to the modus operandi used in the riot. The similarity suggests that there must be a relationship between the two tragedies.
   "A number of unknown people entered shop-house of a victim (R), looted the goods. Some of the people stripped her dress and forced her to watch her sisters raped. Having raped, these 2 girls were thrown away to down stairs which started being burned down. They died but R survived because someone helped her." (A story of the victim's family R, L, M, on May 14, 1998 incident).
   The characteristic of the rapes could be found in so many rapes and sexual abuse. One of them reads below:
   "When a victim was at her home, tens of terrific unknown young men who wore old and faded shirts rushed her house and looted. Eight of them dragged her, stripped her dress and raped for 2 hours." (A story the victim L's friend, on May 14, 1998)
   As we mentioned at "Preparatory Document No. 2", the actors of the incident came from unknown places. They are different from the native residents. In some cases, victims could be saved from the rapes by local residents:
   ".. Among 4 young men who were driving motor-cycles, there was one shouting "separate girls and bring to school". The victims escaped from rape because the residents helped her." (A story of L & L, on May 13, 1998).
   Below are the examples of the rapes and mass sexual abuse: what they did, and the indication of the ones who did.
   Table 3
   The examples Modus Operandi of the Sexual Abuses and the rapes on May 13-15 1998
   

   No.	Code name	Age/ Status	Date	Modus Operandi
   1	S	A house wife (newly wed)	May 13	Some unknown people came to her home. Some of them threaten, "If you don't give money, I will rape you". While they plundered goods, she was stripped.
   2	L and L	A house wife and her daughters	May 13	A mass of people came from 3 directions. There were 4 young men riding motor-cycle ordered, "burn, attack" and a group of young other men who wore old and faded shirts started damaging. This victim came down from the upstairs after her shop-house damaged and plundered. Among the young men, there was one shouting, "scoundrel Chinese! Damaging our country!". At the same time, he started scratching the victim and her daughters, and trying to strip their dresses. Among the 4 young men, there was someone shouted, "Separate the girls and bring to the school!" This victim survived from raping because the residents came to help her.
   3	W and S	15 and 20	May 13	Tens of young men got out of a truck and attacked shop-house of the victim. They plundered goods, dragged the victims, stripped their dress and raped them. Some other ones burnt the shop-house and let the victims burnt inside the shop-house.
   4	W and L	50 and 26 (A mother and her daughter)	May 13	Some unknown people destroyed and plundered the victim's house. Some of them forced son of the victim to rape his sister. They threatened, "If you refuse, we will burn you!" They also forced the servant of the victim to rape his boss. Raping continued by unknown people. The victim's house was burnt, brother-sister were thrown into the fire. Later, their mother suicide by jumping to the fire.
   5	D	17	May 13	Tens of young men got out of 2 trucks and attacked shop-house of the victim. They plundered goods, raped her, even bit and broke off her nipple. After that, they burnt the shop-house. The victim could run away and escape.
   6	R	26	May 14	Some unknown people entered R’s room. Some of them plundered goods, the others stripped the victim. The husband’s victim who tried to protect her, was hit by the rioters.
   7	N	A house wife, 4 months pregnant	May 14	Some unknown people broke in the door of R’s shop-house and plundered goods. Some of them dragged and stripped her dress. Her husband, who wanted to help her, was hit by the actor. In the naked, the victim released herself and run away. When she was going down the stairs, she fell. Her foot was broken and had miscarriage. This victim died of bleeding at a hospital.
   8	M, L, R	sisters	May 14	Some unknown people entered victim’s shop-house and plundered goods. Some of them stripped R’s dress and forced her to see her 2 sisters raped. Having raped, these 2 girls were thrown down to the burning ground floor. M and L died, but R could be saved by someone.
   9	M	A house wife	May 14	Some unknown people entered victim’s shop-house and plundered goods. Some of them kept her husband and forced him to watch people stripping his wife.
   10	L	23	May 14	On May 13 she and her family fled because of the rumor said that there would be students’ movement and riot. Nothing happened and she felt safe. She and her family went back to their home. On May 14 tens of terrific unknown young men who wore old and faded shirts rushed her house and plundered. Eight of them dragged her, stripped her dress and raped for 2 hours.
   11	L	11	May 14	Tens of unknown people broke this victim’s house and plundered. They stripped her dress, raped, and damaged her vagina by barbed wire. This victim died at a hospital.
   12	L	9	May 14	Some unknown people attacked this victim’s house, broke, and plundered. Some of them dragged this victim, raped and stabbed her vagina with a piece of glass. This victim died at the hospital in Singapore.
   13	N and L	19 and 21	May 14	Tens of people damaged a shop-house of this family’s victim. They threatened this victim by saying, "Because you are Chinese, you are raped".. These 2 sisters then were raped by 7-10 people. Their shop-house was burnt and these 2 sisters were thrown away to the flame. Their parents saw all of the incident.
   14	R, I, and D	18, 15, and 40	May 14	The victim’s shop-house was attacked by tens of unknown people. Some people plundered goods, some others raped this mother and her 2 daughters. Because of the emotional stress, R jumped over the windows and died. The shop-house then was burnt off. The mother and her daughter could save by themselves.
   15	M	23	May 15	Having plundered and burnt this victim’s shop-house, some unknown people kneaded her breast.
   16	L	A house wife	May 15	A group of unknown people entered a real estate. Some plundered goods, some stripped this victim’s dress. They forced her to dance on her bed. Her husband who wanted to help her, was dragged, hit and gashed his back. One of her neighbor who helping her, also was stabbed and died. Her son could be saved by her neighbors while her house was burnt. Nowadays this lady gets mad.

   Source: Documentation of the Volunteers Team for Humanity. The stories came from the victims, their families, and eyewitnesses of May 13-15, 1998 tragedy.

3. The Victims of Mass Raping
   The wide range of mass raping can be proven by the numbers of victims, relatives, friends, and witness as who told the stories secretly and sadly. From the very confidential report, we could collect the numbers of rape victim and sexual abuses. All of them are shown at Table 4. Among the victims, 20 died. The other ones physically and psychologically now are in very bad condition. Till July 3, 1998, there are 168 persons who told that they got mass raping and sexual abuse (152 persons are from Jakarta and its environs, 16 persons from Solo, Medan, Palembang, and Surabaya).
   The numbers as we see at Table 4 are not the total numbers of the victims. Those are ones who had reported the incident until July 3, 1998.
   Table 4
   The Numbers of Rape and Sexual Abuse Victims at Jakarta and its environs

   Date	Raping	Raping & persecution	Raping & burning	Sexual Abuses	Total Numbers of Victims
   May 13	-	2	3 (all died)	4	9 (3 died)
   May 14	101	17 (7 died)	6 (all died)	8 (1 died)	132 (14 died)
   May 15	-	1 (died)	-	1	2 (1 died)
   After May 15 until July 3	2 (1 died)	6 (1 died)	-	1	9 (2 died)
   Total	103 (1 died)	26 (9 died)	9 (all died)	14 (1 died)	152 (20 died)

   Source: Documentation of The volunteer Team for Humanity, May 13 - July 3, 1998
   Notes:
   
   1. These data come from the reports of victims, witnesses, and the victims' families
   2. Data from the victims/their relatives told Volunteers team
   3. Volunteers Team could not make any communication with victims who did not give any report. There were reticence of victims, their relatives, doctors, and hospitals staff because of terror.
   4. The rape incident happened after May 13-15 riot were presented here because the modus operandi of the rape were similar to the ones on May 13-15 riot.
   The statistics above are numbers mainly and do not record the threats, terror, persecution, sadness, tears, fear and loneliness of the victims. For the victims, the families and the witnesses unbearable memories remain.
   When many volunteers started helping by paying attention and listening to the victims, they were terrorized and threatened. How can justice and the truth be found in this country?
4. Terror to Fact Finding
   Since the victims got sympathy, funds, and volunteers who want to listen to them, the terror and intimidation happened to them, to their relatives, to the Chinese, to the hospital staff and the doctors who treated them, also to the volunteers. The characteristics of terror and intimidation are shown on Table 5 below:

   Table 5

   Category and Target of Terror to the effort of searching and reporting raping victims and sexual abuse

   Target of Teror	Category of Teror
   	Threaten via telephone	Threaten via anonymous letter	Threaten from military agency	Threaten to victim’s children/ family	Distribution some photographs of raping victims	Rumor about riots and raping
   Victims	Ú	Ú
   Victims’ family	Ú	Ú	Ú
   Hospital			Ú
   Doctors			Ú
   The Chinese	Ú	Ú			Ú	Ú
   The members of Volunteers team	Ú	Ú	Ú	Ú

   Source: Documentation of Volunteers Team for Humanity. The stories come from the victims, their families, doctors and hospital staff, eyewitnesses, common people, and members of the Volunteers Team for Humanity.
   It is very clear that the target of the terror and threats are the ones who tried to find the truth. It proves how "the total damage of our living together" real. It shows that the hand over of power on May 21, 1998 was only a "forced drama" that performed on our political life. Deep inside the political turbulence we can find an old style of terrors and threat: violence, systematic, full of force, using racketeers and gangsters, military, hired assassin.
   "You couldn't continue this movement of finding victims. If you still going on, you know the effect. Remember! You have family, don't you? If you still love yourself and your family, you have to follow my instruction. Careful! I am serious!" (An anonymous letter to a volunteer, June 1998)
   or
   "Do you need more grenade? I know where your children go to school, their school uniform, the time they go to school and come back..." (A threat from unidentified man who called up a volunteer, June 1998)
   Facing all the terrors and threats, there is one movement happening among the people. Since all of the riots and the rape, there are more and more people feel that they should investigate and find the network of the architects and actors of the riot and the rapes. These people come from many backgrounds: religion, age groups, ethnic, social status. They have one goal, the disclosure of the architects and actors of the riots and the rapes. This network is a "public crime" and the architects and the actors are "public criminals". Also there are more people who do not only feel, but also give anything they can give for these humanity efforts. We can conclude this movement as an aspiration and striving of so many people in the society for justice and the truth..