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Police sends second summons to Megawati

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Antara - February 18, 1997

Jakarta – Police has sent a second summons to ousted party leader Megawati Soekarnoputri and his husband Taufik Kiemas to explain about the political activity they held at their home on January 10, a South Jakarta police chief said here on Monday.

"The summons was sent on February 11 and they are expected to come to the South Jakarta police resort on February 18 and 20," Lieutenant Colonel Sisno Adiwinoto, the chief of the South Jakarta police resort, said.

He said unless Mega and Taufik would meet the call police would force them to do it.

Despite the ban Megawati Soekarnoputri has held a commemoration to mark the anniversary of the Indonesia Democratic Party (PDI) she once chaired. The party is now headed by Suryadi who toppled her in a congress in Medan.

Asked whether the presence of Megawati and Taufik at the police office could be represented by their lawyers Sisno said that it possibly could so far as they had reasons for it.

He said "it all depends on the reason," adding that police would study it to see if it was acceptable.

He said the police had met the legal conditions needed for sending the summons so far.

"We have done it accoding to the law. According to us we have already had the permits including the one from the President and the Attorney General," he said.

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