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 CIS NO: 76-H461-62
 TITLE: Human Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines.
 SOURCE: Committee on International Relations. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: v+119 p.
 DATE: Dec. 18, 1975, May 3, 1976
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 94-1; 94-2        SUDOC: Y4.In8/16:H88/5
 ITEM NO: 1017
 LC CARD NO: 76-602866               MC ENTRY NO: 76-9786

 Hearings before the Subcom on International Organizations to review
 evidence of continuing violations of human rights by the governments of
 Indonesia and the Philippines in view of the Title III of the Foreign
 Assistance Act (text, p. 99-101), recommending that the President
 substantially reduce or terminate security assistance to any country which
 engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights.
   Questions executive branch examination of Indonesian rights prior to the
 recommendation of a FY76 increase in Indonesian foreign military sales.
   Appendices (p. 99-119) contain submitted correspondence, and:
 a. State Dept rpts to Congress on the human rights situation in countries
     receiving U.S. security assistance (p. 108-115).
 b. Indonesia statement on the location, classification, and number of
     detainees, 1976, tables (p. 117).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in Indonesia and the Philippines
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): POLITICAL PRISONERS; MARTIAL
     LAW; CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE RELATIONS (Reduction of security
     assistance to Indonesia); SUBCOM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL
     ORGANIZATIONS. HOUSE; DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE; CIVIL LIBERTIES; COMMUNIST
     PARTIES (Indonesian communist party ops); MILITARY.ASSISTANCE;
     PHILIPPINES (Human rights in Philippines); INDONESIA (Human rights
     in Indonesia); FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT
 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L.94-329

 76-H461-62 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Dec. 18, 1975 p. 2-58
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     BUDIARDJO, CARMEL (member, Tapol Campaign for the Release of
        Indonesian Political Prisoners)
     NEWMANN, JOHN (asst program officer, Office for Asia and the Pacific,
        Ford Fdn)
 STATEMENTS: Description of witness' prison experience in Indonesia;
     examples of Indonesian penal system violation of human rights in
     treatment of political prisoners; recommendation that U.S. security
     assistance to Indonesia be reduced or terminated. (p. 2-27)
 DISCUSSION: Reasons for witness' failure to use influence during Sukarno
     regime to abate penal abuses; clarification of witness' possible
     Communist motives for favoring denial of U.S. assistance to Indonesia;
     readjustment problems of released prisoners; review of attempted Oct.
     1965 Indonesian coup (rpt, p. 49-54). (p. 28-58)
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in Indonesia
 DESCRIPTORS: TAPOL CAMPAIGN FOR THE RELEASE OF INDONESIAN POLITICAL
     PRISONERS; PRISONS

 76-H461-62 TESTIMONY NO: 2         May 3, 1976 p. 59-98
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SCHULZ, LAROLD K. (exec dir, Center for Social Action, United Church
        of Christ)
     BENSON, GEORGE (Col., ret.) (Wash rep, Pertamina Oil Co)
     ANDERSON, BENEDICT O'G. (assoc prof of govt and Asian studies and
        assoc dir, Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell Univ)
     OTTO, GEORGE (conf minister, Rocky Mt Conf, United Church of Christ)
 STATEMENTS: Evidence of Indonesian and Philippine violation of human
     rights including denial of fair trials to political prisoners;
     justification of prison conditions in Indonesia. (p. 59-80)
 DISCUSSION: Differing views on Indonesian efforts to insure basic rights
     of political prisoners; description of Philippine abuse of human rights;
     role of the Communist party in 1965 Indonesian coup attempt. (p. 81-98)
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in Indonesia and the Philippines
 DESCRIPTORS: PRISONS; TRIALS; PERTAMINA OIL CO.; UNITED CHURCH OF
     CHRIST