Kontras, the Committee for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, has urged the Military Police to investigate thoroughly and with all haste the kidnapping of a number of activists. Further delays will only make it more difficult for several key witnesses to furnish statements. Delays are also spreading greater fear among the kidnapped activists who have since returned home. Kontras coordinator, Munir, said that thorough investigation of these cases also reflects on the standing of the legal apparatus.

A third victim, Rahardjo Waluyo Djati, has now come forward with his testimony, following in the footsteps of Pius Lustrilanang and Desmond Mahesa. He said that during the time he was kidnapped from 12 March until 28 April 1998, he was beaten, given electric shocks and his neck was bound so tightly that he found it difficult to breath for several minutes. The tie was removed when one of the captors said that they did not want him to die too easily.

But the torture that he will never forget till the day he dies was when they forced him to strip naked and then ordered him to lie on a slab of ice for 10 to 15 minutes. They used this form of torture on several occasions when they were trying to persuade him to tell them about what he did after the events of 27 July 1996.