James Balowski – According to a chronology sent to ASIET by the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD), four students, Yudha, Irwan, Ikra and Indah are believed missing following a raid by security forces on a boarding house in Bandung, West Java, on February 26.

The raid occurred after other residents had complained to the owner, an employee of the department of social and political affairs, about another resident, Yudha, who is head of Student Solidarity for Indonesian Democracy (SMID) Bandung. SMID is one of a number of mass organisations affiliated to the PRD. They claimed he had been copying and distributing a banned magazine, Independent Voice and the PRD publication Liberation.

Earlier in the day, Irwan, a fellow student activists, was told by the boarding house owner that Yudha was being sought by the authorities because of his activities in the PRD. Later that evening, when Yudha, Inda and Indra approached the boarding house, they saw a number of unidentified people hiding in parked cars. Unable to find Irwan and suspicious of those outside, they left. Yudha later phoned the house and was told that it had been raided an hour before and that magazines, leaflets calling for an election boycott and SMID stickers belonging to him had been seized. As of going to print, the whereabouts of the four are unknown and eye witnesses have said they saw Irwan being interrogated by security personnel.