GREAT URGENCY OF HELP AND REVELATION

1. Optimum Help to the Victims
More than just any political intrigue, we are facing hundreds of the rapes and sexual abuse victims. As described above, nowadays the victims are absolutely in poor condition: physical and genital organs damaged, very bad physical pain, psychoneurosis, temptation to commit suicide, living in fear and desperation. One thing we can do for them is to have an: I-do-care-attitude, i.e. emphatic and efforts to enhance their hope for the future. The government and civilians must wholeheartedly help the people and help them with people they ran trust. To do this, let us consider the following:
2. Collaboration to Stop the Terror and the Threat The victims, their families, the eyewitnesses, hospital personnel and doctors, the volunteers have been terrorized. Just take a look at the fear:
   "Sorry, I'm not coming ... though I do want to talk with you about what happened. Just a few minutes after calling you up, we got a terror call. We are very afraid of having greater troubles ..." (From a mother of a rape victim to a volunteer, June 1998)
   we have lost face in this "Republic of Terror and Fear" (Republik Teror dan Ketakutan). And this kind of republic has no sense of security. The security forces should be helping and can help a great deal. They should not be blaming civilians or the international community for believing that they the security forces, have "chickened out" in helping, been in agreement with or actually been part of the terror and threat. Surely the security forces have power and yet these. Incidents continue even up to now. (July 3)
   Whether the security body will help or not, we are the civilians will continue to elaborate our effort to protect each other in helping the victims. To all businessmen and managers, all white collar and laborers, doctors and nurses, intellectuals and activists, this very effort is a real step to our longings for what we call the civil society. The heart of the civil society is civility.. So the uncivilized, systematic, and organized rapes is absolutely a negation and a total destruction of civility, the very heart of the civil society.

3. The Death and The Resurrection of Living Together The blurring between "civilized" and "uncivilized", good and evil so quickly penetrate our daily lives:
   "Some days after the riot I went home by Bajaj. Usually I have to pay for Rp. 3,000,- But at that time the driver demanded that I had to pay for Rp. 10.000,- He even terrorized me by saying: 'Got I to fuck you!?' .." (A witness, may 1998)
   What can we do to make up "the total destruction of our living together"? While we help the victims and efforts to stop the terror, one thing we can do together is to uncover the network of think tanks and actors for the rape and sexual abuse.

4. Contra "Scapegoat" Argument The revelation of the network for the rapes and sexual abuse becomes the key to the renovation of our living together precisely because in the systematic and organized network lies the destruction of our lives. Perhaps we may argue about the roots of the tragedy and cleverly propose to solve the roots. For instant, people think that the root of all the uncivilized acts is poverty. This kind of argument has at least three weakness.
   First, if poverty is the root, all societies that have been living in this condition must experience a long, long tragedy of rape (let's say: Germany, Nigeria, Turky, India, Japan, Philippine, or Peru), since those societies also have groups of people living in poverty like Indonesia. The fact that those societies have no tragedy of rape, as Indonesia does, shows that there is no causal relationship between "poverty" and "rape".
   If poverty is the root of the phenomenon, even on a large scale, second, the in silentio argument puts the poor as the only participants the rape and sexual abuse. It is not only absurd, but also has moral superiority arrogance of those who are not-poor towards to poor. What this very argument will show is a certain ideology that the poor are the only scapegoat. On the contrary, the fact shows that many victims (or victims-to-be) were saved by civilians, most of them of the poor.
   Last, the argument that "poverty is the root of the phenomenon" is also an escapist argument: looking for other distantly related reasons. Perhaps this kind of argument sounds logical on a TV debate show or in a seminar forum, in viewing the urgency of the tragedy.
   Now, those contra-arguments do not say that "poverty" is a great problem in this country. It is! But putting poverty as the only reason of the tragedy is escapism. It is more urgent than a debate of how poverty relates to the tragedy that we are to uncover the network of the think tanks and actors of the systemic tragedy.

5. A Sketch of the Direct Relationship between the Riots and the Rapes
   The modus operandi as shown in the Table 3, the network of the think tanks and actors of the rapes cannot be separated from the ones of the riots on May 1998. The demolition, the burning down, and the rape are different elements of the same systemic and organized acts. A further step, a revelation of the network of the think tanks and actors of the rape will lead us to uncover the ones of the riots and vice versa..
   The inseparable relationship between the think tanks and actors of both the riots and the rape is not a made-up story, and so is the term "the network of the think tanks" not. The facts of the systemic and organized plan and operation leads us to the conclusion.
   " ... I am not an informant, but I am a commander who have stimulated the riot. I had recruited my 60 men from all armed forces units. I could easily rape these girls (pointing his finger toward 3 Chinese ladies). Killing you guys is an easy business ..." (A remark of an unidentified person who attended a meeting of the Volunteers Team in Central Jakarta, June 1998)
   This systemic and organized plan has already been the attitude of some groups in our society:
   "Long time before the riot, one day my friend and I bought bottled tea drinks for Rp. 5,000,- I refused and sensed of being extorted. But then came up some guys who had been sitting around before, and they terrorized us, "What! You Chinese will be swept off by now ...!" Being afraid, I reluctantly paid for ..." (From an eyewitness, May 1998).
   Or,
   "... Before the riot, a well-built man came up. He visited the poor housings around the Pantai Indah Kapuk. At first he just made acquaintances with the youth from the area. Then the unidentified guy treated them for meals, drinks, and smoking. It made them good friends. He then told them, "If you guys like, in a moment you can be getting many expensive goods, or fucking those amoys you never dare to touch!" (Some eyewitnesses, June 1998)
   Or else,
   "Long time before the riot, one day I went out somewhere by taxi. When I paid for the driver he refused it, saying, "It's no need to pay for! You Chinese in a moment will be swept off and raped!" (A victim, June 1998).
   Again, after the riots of May 1998, the collective attitudes are just like the ones before and after the riots among some people.
   "On June 25th, 1998, a group of female students were on a private car, driven from HI (Hotel Indonesia) to Plaza Senayan. One of them was a Chinese. They met a group of soldiers, of whom some gave a sexual abuse sign pointed to the Chinese one." (A witness, June 1998)
   After considering the network of "the plan and the think tanks" let us discuss about the network of "the operation and the actors".. Again, Table 3 has shown both of the networks. One pattern that distinguished them is that the rape and sexual abuse clearly pointed to Chinese women of the Chinese housings and business area. (Vide the Table 1 and the Diagram). This specific selection of the area and target proves that there must be a systemic and organized network of plan and operation behind it.

6. An Urgent Revelation: Facts
   The plan and the modus operandi of the riot and the rapes unquestionably involved the systemic and organized networks. Just like the riot that was not by accident, so was the rapes. Table 6 below will show the parallel of the inseparable patterns of both of the networks
   Table 6
   Modus Operandi Comparison between the Riot and rape Rapes

   No.	The Riot	The Rapes
   1.	A conditioning efforts to gather people in a certain area, a target for demolition, looting, and burning down act, by spreading the rumors of the action	An effort of an 'Indoctrination' and mass conditioning to have the Chinese women as the target of the destruction, the slaughter and the rapes, by spreading the rumors of the action
   2.	The rumors were spread out by telephones, public transportation drivers, or persons	The rumors were spread out by telephones, public transportation drivers (taxis, Bajajs, Angkots), vendors, or persons
   3.	There was a certain people or group of people who acted as a provocateur and/or a leading-actor for the mass to do the demolition, the looting, and the burning down	There was a certain figure or a group of people who commanded or led the rapes
   4.	The actors were unknown to the local and were dropped by from a distant place	The actors were unknown to the local and were dropped by from an unknown place
   5.	The provocateur or the leading-actor yelled "anti-Chinese!"	The commander or the leading-actor yelled "anti-Chinese!"
   6.	During an after the riot, terrors and extortion were made in the forms of spreading rumors. These still keep going on when they are written down.	During an after the riot, terrors and extortion were made in the forms of: spreading the rumors, or pictures of the rapes victims, kidnappings and raping the Chinese women. These actions keep going on when they are written down.
   7.	The targets of the riot: shopowners, ruko, factories, business centers and housing areas.	The targets of the rapes is the Chinese.

Source: "Volunteers Team for Humanity" documentation, from the testimonies of the victims, their family and friends, and also from the eyewitnesses, May-June 1998.
Table 6 shows clearly how any accidental-factor-theory by no means can explain the fact of the riot and the rapes, (Cfr. "Early Documentation No. 1 and No. 2).
If both the riots and the rapes were merely by accident,
1. how can it explain the facts of the widespread tragedy and the great number of victims?
2. how can it explain the simulacrum (in the same time) phenomenon of most of the tragedies?
3. how can it explain the similarity of their modus operandi?
4. how can it explain the fact that both have the same target, i.e. the Chinese?
Those 4 questions are central to our point of view. Every single statement that says that all those tragedies were merely by accident has no evidence nor logic at all. The causality of the rapes and the riot is the result of the network of organized, systemic, and patterned plan and operation. So it involves the think tanks and the actors of the network.
Now, the next step is the revelation. These aspirations and demands are from many groups of our society: businessmen-women, international community, farmers, labors and white-collars, intellectuals and activists, public servants and the poor, children and students.
7. The Focus of the Revelation: The Network of the Think tanks and Actors
   The patterns and the evidence are clear. Now, there is an unbearable question to answer: what to do with the net work of he think tanks and actors of the rapes (and the riot)? Just forget and shelve it? Or, together we have to uncover it?
   To forget it means to shelve it. No difference. But how can we forget such thing if the tragedy already has been an unforgettable gray episode in the life of the victims, their families and relatives, the eyewitnesses and all of us? How can we forget such thing if it already has been a nightmare: part of the fear and trauma, of the depression and loneliness and desperation, and even part of the most inhuman fantasy of some of us? All those phenomenon already are data (happened) and facta (done). Our personal and communal lives are not only based on high salaries or GNP figures, but also on memories, whatever the memories contain.
   For now, then, we are living in a nightmare of the rapes and the destruction. First of all, we have testimony that the rapes and the massive destruction did happen. Second, we testimony that hundreds of the victims of the tragedies are part of the uneraseable gray episode of the political history and of our way of living together in this very country. Lastly, we also have testimony that the tragedies have already blurred (even have destroyed) the difference between the "good" and the "no-good" things, "civilized" and "uncivilized" in our society . And this is an undeniable sign of a total destruction of the life of this very nation.
   It is clear that forgetting and shelving these brutal tragedies is not more than merely an escapism. It is just like using anesthetics. After the anesthetizing effect has gone, other brutal tragedies will follow one after another. Then we are living through these chains of brutality. There will be bloodshed, and other victims will be lining up.
   That is why we and all people of goodwill are demanding that the network of the think tanks and actors of the rapes and the destruction be uncovered. Every single politician, or party, or group, or political process that does not adapt this urgent agenda for humanity is not more than a power broker that has no ear to the wide range aspirations of the civilians. It is not only in the name of "justice", but the revelation also becomes a key step to reforming the difference between "good" and "evil", "civilized" and "uncivilized", in our living together. But literally we are to say that there is no public crime without any public criminal. Now, the investigation especially must be directed to:
   1. The network of rapes and massive destruction that obviously has certain patterns, is systemic and organized.
   2. The network of the operation of rapes and massive destruction that obviously has certain patterns, is systemic and organized.
   3. The planners of the rapes and the massive destruction, whether they are of government body, of the armed forces (ABRI), of any exclusive syndicate, of groups of bandit or hired gangsters, or of any other group in the society.
   4. The actors of the rapes and destruction, whether they are of the government body, of the armed forces (ABRI), of any exclusive syndicate, of groups of bandit or hired gangsters, or of any other group the society.
   A systemic and organized "public crime" only can be coped with by a systemic and organized "public anti-crime".. So the investigation only can work if there is a network of all: the victims and the eyewitnesses, any civilian and the leaders of the government body, groups of religious men and women from any religion, groups of volunteers for humanity, experts and common people, labors and students, groups of any association and government elements.
   To those who are in the government body, all of you have special interest in the tragedies, precisely because you consider yourselves the managers for our life in this nation-state. Especially to the leaders of the armed forces, all of you have special interest in the tragedies, because you consider yourselves the managers for the security of our life in this nation-state. All of you can contribute significant help to the investigation.
   We do know that all of you smartly and strictly keep an eye on, investigate, and spy on anything and anybody: from the lives of the laborers to the vendors', the student activities to the retired generals', from the discussion-groups to the activists for humanity's, from the published books to any meeting. For decades you are expert in these. There is no activity in the society that can escape your monitors. And it has been an enduring pattern: complicated bureaucracies, the arrest of those whom you dislike.
   If your expertise in these matters and alike has been proven so far, then, you should easily recognize and find the network of the think tanks and actors of the rapes and the destruction on May 1998. Well, perhaps some of you cannot see the plank in your eyes. But for sure this is not true for thousands of you who are in charge of the security of this very nation and state. Many of you must know exactly the network.
   This "Documentation" is not only out of our deep concerns, but also we hope that this one will be useful to all of you. It is clear that the pattern, the operation, and the modus operandi of the tragedies are systemic and organized and involve many planners and actors, as you can read in this "Documentation". (Vide Early Documentation No. 1 & 2).
   Please feel free to use all the documents, while groups in the society are doing our best in helping the victims. You know that there are more and more people wait to see your significant help in uncovering the network of the rapes and the massive destruction.
   If not, please do not blame us that there are more and more people believe that many "government" and "security" elements are useless. Or, perhaps they still work but they agree to or even have involvement the tragedies.