Targeting the hands of Diro Utomo when telling his torture and thousands of other political prisoners at the beginning of their disposal in Buru Island to be forced to open the forest and make a paddy field only with a cangkul.
Diro Utomo men aged 83 years was brought to Buru Island in 1971 and directly placed the XVIII Unit even though without any obvious reasons why he was arrested and retained.
Buru Island located in Maluku is the location of the utilization place (Tefaat) which then turns into Inrehab (Rehabilitation Installation) political prisoners arrested by post-G30S/PKI to be used to build a rice area.
Sanleko Beach where lands the political prisoners of the IV unit when disposing in Buru Island, Maluku.
The admire of the village name of Savana Jaya in political prisoners in Buru Island, Maluku. Solikhin’s political prisoner mantan is home to Buru Island, Maluku.
But about 12 thousand political prisoners brought to the Buru Island are not all associated with the PKI’s dissolved organization. Many of them are tuned as a PKI member because there are no ones who do not like them.
“At the moment the index was more deadly than the weapons, a person who didn’t like us easily pointed us as PKI so that we were arrested and used political prisoners without the court†process, Diro said.
Like Solikhin, the 84-year-old man was arrested with his wife in the mid 1966 in Tasikmalaya because in his home page was found the map of the police office banquet plan at all he never seen the map so that he had to be thrown into the Buru Island in 1970 and inhabited the IV/Savana Jaya unit.
Photo former political prisoner Solikhin embraced his wife before arrested and wasted to Buru Island, Maluku.
Photo of the results of the reproduction of the political prisoner Sugito (second left) and the former son of the political prisoner Sugiharti (second right) in 1978 in the Buru Island, Maluku. Former political prisoners Diro Utomo walked towards the tombs of the senasib in Savana Jaya, the political prisoner of Sugito (right) with his wife Sugiharti who also a former political prisoner chose to settle in the Buru Island, Maluku.
During the forced work, political prisoners often get violence from soldiers who oversee them during working in each unit.
“This is auction of Buru Island is built with the sweat and tears of political prisoners so that Buru has now become a lumbung padi in Eastern Indonesia’s Eastâ€, Solikhin’s tutur chosen life in Savana Jaya.
Starting in 1972, many wifes and sons of tapol were set from Java Island so that after the time of exemption in 1979 many former political prisoners prefer to settle in the Buru Island where they spend their time in forced work.
The former political prisoners work as employees in SDN 1 Waepo, Savana Jaya, Buru Island, Maluku.
Hamparan sawah forced political prisoners at Savana Jaya, Buru Island, Maluku.
The presence of children of tapol who are still girls in generating seeds of love from political prisoners who are still elongation. Many of those married and choosing settled in Buru.
As Sugito, the man was born 1942 it was humble with a political prisoner called Sugiharti who was finally married in the political prisoner of 1978 although in his marriage written work of a political prisoner.
The former political prisoners in the Buru Island are now living quietly, there are those who spend the rest of his life by farming to open the warung to meet the needs of his life.
The photo of the reproduction of four political prisoners when doing rice harvest in Buru Island, Maluku. The political prisoners of Diro Utomo lived in Buru Island, Maluku. The political prisoners of Diro Utomo (left) and children from the political prisoners of Sugiharti (second left) did the blocking during the 2019 election at Savana Jaya Island Buru, Maluku. The political prisoners of Diro Utomo (left) embraced his friends Slamet (right) in Buru Island, Maluku. ANTARA PHOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A
They have odored with the transmigrations that were declared from Java Island even though there were times that call them “based PKI†if there was someone who was amazed by them.
Pascapemilu 2019, the former polytk resistance hopes that the chosen president can later return their good name and his family so that they can live safer and tentram. Hope is no longer the event they have ever felt.
Photo and text : Hafidz Mubarak A
Editor : Danika Wahyu
