The National Human Rights Commission said in a statement issued Wednesday that human rights had been violated towards students at Trisakti University who were being prevented from speaking freely. Several students at the university said they had been threatened by unknown persons who warned them not to give evidence to the Commission.

The Commission's secretary Baharuddin Lopa said they had gone to the university Tuesday to take statements.

"However, there were no meetings because they said they had received threats warning them not to give testimony to anyone,' said Lopa. This would prevent the Commission from getting a fully accurate picture of what had happened [at the time of the shootings on 12 May}.

The threats had been conveyed to the witnesses over the phone to their homes by persons who did not identify themselves. The Commission has reported this to the Military Police with a request that the witneses be given protection.