Ratna Sarumpaet ignored a police summons which ordered her to appear for questioning today. But the Jakarta police are insisting that she should appear so the director of the Satu Merah Theatre Group received a second summons today ordering her to appear on Monday, 21 September.

The summons relates to a meeting of the National Dialogue for Democracy held from 15-17 August at Hotel Indonesia. Initially the event was to have been held at Manggala Wana Bhakti but this was not permitted as it clashed with President Habibie's speech to Parliament on 16 August, so the venue was switched to Hotel Indonesia.

The National Dialogue drew up a statement which referred to B.J. Habibie as someone not suitable to be president. This remark is now deemed to be offensive to the head of state and Ratna as the person responsible for the meeting was summoned by the police to be questioned as a witness.

But Ratna is unwilling to respond to the summons. 'Wait a minute,' she said. The summons refers to her as a witness but she thinks that this is just a ruse to put her in gaol.