Mystery contiunes to envelop kidnapers and the location at which pro-democracy activist, Pius Lustrilanang, was detained and tortured.

However, SiaR has received information from sources at the Armed Forces Headquarters Wednesday, 29 April 98, mentioning that the state code agency building in the Ragunan area of Pasar Minggu (outskirts of Jakarta) was borrowed by the Armed Forces Intelligence Agency (BIA), to "interrogate" pro-democracy activists.

According to this source, the BIA would have been able to make use of the State Code Institute (Lembaga Sandi Negara, signal intelligence) building because the two agencies have had a "special" cooperative relationship.

Said the source, the Armed Forces Intelligence Agency (BIA), had already borrowed the building in the past to interrogate pro-democracy activists. One of those who had been locked up and interrogated in that building was the Chair of the People's Democratic Party (PRD). Budiman Sudjatmiko and also his friends, after they had been kidnaped from the house of Benny Sumardi in the Bekasi area in connection with the 27 July l996 affair.

"The abduction of activists by BIA agents is an inconstitutional act which even violates the Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters chain of command. This might have been a special assignment ordered by a strong man in this country, but it by-passes the Armed Forces Commander in Chief line of command," the source stated.

He then reinforced his argument by delineating the physical details of the building in comparison with the testimony of Pius, Andi Arief and Desmon J.

Mahesa released in the mass media recently. "From their testimony, it is clear that the physical details match the building of the State Code Agency," he said. One of the features identified by the activists is the airconditioned room in which they were locked up--a type of cell--equipped with camera monitors. Pius estimated there were six cells filled by pro-democracy activists who had been declared missing.

Another clue was the fact that Pius would hear the sound of airplanes flying at particular hours over the building where he and his friends were detained. "It is true that airplanes fly over the TB Simatupang ring-road and Ragunan as they turn towards Halim just before landing there," the SiaR source said.

Also at particular times, Pius heard the reveille trumpets of an Armed Forces unit. Within a radius of several hundred meters of the State Code building, an Army Engineer unit is quartered.

In his statement to the National Committee on Human Rights, on the afternoon of Monday, 27 April, Pius, who was abducted 4 February as he was leaving the Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital in Jakarta , said he was kidnaped by 4 men driving a Corolla Twin Cam car. His eyes were covered by a black cloth but he estimated that the trip took between 45-60 minutes before they arrived at the building where he was subsequently detained. It is estimated that the toll-road Pius mentioned is the TB Simatupang ring-road before the left turn in the direction of Ragunan.

"The location is shaded by a dense thicket of trees. It is exactly like the atmosphere in Bogor, where Pius and his friends thought they were detained," said the source.

According to the testimony of Pius and Andi Arif, in that place there were also other activists who had been declared missing, amongst them, Haryanto Taslam (Deputy Secretary General of the Megawati PDI), Desmon J. Mahesa (Chair, Nusantara Legal Aid Foundation, Jakarta), Herman Hendrawan, Faisal Reza, and Waluyo Yati (KNPD), and two Megawati PDI activists from north Jakarta, Yani Afri and Sonny, who had been missing since the general elections campaigns at the end of April l997.

It is not yet entirely clear where the kidnaped activists were hidden by their abductors. But several parties have indicated that the kidnappers are the security forces. "They work independently. They are under the command of Army intelligence, so that Armed Forces leadership know nothing about this. So, it is now the task of the Armed Forces to find them. They should not simply give excuses, like Pak Rudini," said a political observer to SiaR.

A number of activists and lawyers in Jakarta are planning a demonstration in front of the secret building which they suspect is where activists have been detained and tortured. "They are now busy mapping out and noting several suspicious places. When the time is right, they will invite members of the National Committee on Human Rights and the International Red Cross" said a SiaR source.