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Date: 1998-06-01
Indonesien: Netz koordiniert Revolte-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Indonesien: Netz koordiniert Revolte meint der Boston Globe. Ein Blick in die newsgroup soc.culture.indonesia spricht für diese Annahme. Indonesia revolt was Net driven By David L. Marcus, Globe Staff, 05/23/98 WASHINGTON - As rebellions broke out across Indonesia this month, protesters did not have tanks or guns. But they had a powerful tool that wasn't available during the country's previous uprisings: the Internet. Bypassing the government-controlled television and radio stations, dissidents shared information about protests by e-mail, inundated news groups with stories of President Suharto's corruption, and used chat groups to exchange tips about resisting troops. In a country made up of thousands of islands, where phone calls are expensive, the electronic messages reached key organizers. ''This was the first revolution using the Internet,'' said W. Scott Thompson, an associate professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Thompson, like many academics who follow developments in Indonesia, kept track of the dissidents' communications with one another from thousands of miles away. New technologies have changed the ways the world learns about a fast-changing political crisis. As Chinese troops quashed a democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the dissidents communicated with the outside world by fax, and TV networks used satellites to send out chilling footage. The same year, thanks to West German television, many East Germans learned that the Berlin Wall was being toppled. Details of a Russian coup in 1991 spread by fax and a primitive version of the Internet, and a year later CNN sent images of a military uprising in Thailand around the world. Thanks to the Internet, Thompson said, Indonesian activists circumvented press censorship. In one chat group, he said, participants circulated inspiring accounts of the 1986 ''peoples' power'' rebellion in the Philippines. Some of the messages simply gave encouragement. Last week, in an America Online chat group about Asia, a correspondent nicknamed ''Asia Son'' urged Indonesians to keep denouncing President Suharto's corruption and cronyism. ''One or two people saying that [are] easily dragged away and silenced,'' Asia Son wrote. ''One or two million doing it is not so easy.'' The same day, in broken English, another correspondent urged looters not to pick on Indonesia's ethnic Chinese minority: ''Why are they always the victim when there is a riot? ... All they do is make a honest living. They work hard and when you worked hard you deserve success.'' As Indonesia heated up this week, Abigail Abrash, an Asia specialist at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in Washington, stayed in constant touch with friends in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities. She sent them summaries of the American news coverage of the uprisings. Abrash received front-line reports from students occuping Indonesia's parliament building. From what she read, it seemed that someone brought a laptop inside and went on line while surrounded by armed troops. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/143/Indonesia_revolt_was_Net_ driven.htm Relayed by Pit Schultz <pit@icf.de> via Declan McCullagh. tnx. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) from Arge Daten http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-06-01 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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