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Thursday, December 8, 2011
President leaves for Bali to open democracy forum
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Workers raise the flags of countries participating in the Bali Democracy Forum in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Indonesia will co-host the Fourth Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) with Bangladesh for December 8-9.
Antara JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono here on Wednesday left for Bali to officially open the Fourth Bali Democracy Forum.
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The Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) IV will be held on 8 - 9 December 2011 at Bali International Convention Center (BICC), Nusa Dua, Bali, the foreign ministry said in a statement. In the evening, upon his arrival
in Nusa Dua, Bali, the head of state is scheduled to receive separate courtesy calls from special envoys respectively of Papua New Guinea and the Japanese prime minister, and later hold a meeting with a Bangladeshi delegation.
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THE HAGUE — The government will pay compensation and apologize to relatives of men killed by Dutch troops in a notorious 1947 massacre of villagers during Indonesia’s bitter struggle for independence, their lawyer said Monday. Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said that the apology “does justice to the gravity of what happened in Rawagedeh,” the village on Java island where up to 430 men were rounded up and summarily executed.
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During the meetings, the president will be accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa, Minister/State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan and the foreign ministry`s Director General for Asia, the Pacific and Africa TM
Hamzah Thayeb. Yudhoyono will officially kick off the Fourth Bali Democracy Forum on Thursday. The Forum`s theme this year is “Enhancing Democratic Participation in Changing World: Responding to Democratic Voices.” Following the opening ceremony, the president will host a lunch for heads of state/government and foreign delegations participating in the forum. Continued on page 6
Dutch state to apologize for Indonesia massacre “I hope it helps the relatives find closure for this exceptionally difficult episode in their lives and look to the future,” Rosenthal said. The Dutch ambassador to Indonesia, Tjeerd de Zwaan, will offer the apology during the annual commemoration of the massacre in the village, now called Balongsari, on Dec. 9. Nine relatives of men shot in the massacre won a landmark court case earlier this year, when judges ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the massacre. Continued on page 6
AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File
In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 file photo, a student examines a relief sculpture depicting Rawagedeh massacre where hundred of villagers were rounded up and summarily executed by Dutch troops in Rawagedeh, now also known as Balongsari, West Java, Indonesia.