CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA
Jalan Pattimura 32 – Ambon 97124 – Indonesia
Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337
E-mail: crisiscentre01@hotmail.com
Ambon, April 7, 2002
THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS – Report No. 257
1. INVESTIGATION BY FORENSIC TEAM – A nine member forensic team from
Police HQ in Jakarta has been sent to Ambon. Several non-final conclusions of the
examination on the bomb explosion were revealed by team leader Slamet Iswanto to
the mass media as follows: the bomb was rated “high explosive” and had a radius of
28½ meters (31 yds) with explosion centre confines of 30x40 cm (12” x 16”). The
bomb had TNT and several other chemicalia – which will be checked at the
laboratorium in Jakarta. It suggests some professionality. The bomb may have been
placed on the spot before being detonated, and in that case was! not thrown out of a
car.
2. WHO WERE THE EVILDOERS? – There is a search going on for three suspects
of the bomb explosion, of whom only their initials have been revealed. Many are
inclined to point to the military as the culprits. Chairman Kyai Haji Ali Fauzi of the
BIMM (Badan Immarah Muslim Maluku, union of the various Moluccas Muslim
organisations and factions), however, declared to the mass media that obviously both
the bomb explosion and the burning of the Governor’s Office had been carried out by
a group “that want the desintegration of Indonesia” (read: RMS).
Up to now 13 witnesses have been heard on the bomb explosion and 10 witnesses on
the Governor’s Office burning.
3. VISITORS FROM JAKARTA – Several Cabinet Ministers and other high
functionaries, at a total or more than 30, are scheduled to visit Ambon today.
C.J.Böhm msc,
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina
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