A recent report in the Indonesian newspaper, Kompas (28 April 1979) has revealed that a considerable number of ‘released’ prisoners are being moved to Kalimantan ‘resettlement camps’ which are exclusively for ex-tapols. Some 435 former tapols are reported to have been moved to camps at Amborawang, Berau (East Kalimantan), Buntok and Jilitan (South Central Kalimantan). Again reports from isolated West Kalimantan indicate that another 200 have been settled in a camp at Ketapang; add to this another 355 who were expected to settle at Pararapak camp and 150 in Danau Jutuh (Tempo, 23 December 1978) in the South Barito region, and the figure is at least 1,000. *

simak / unduh TAPOL no 34 /1979

Forced Labour ln Forestry and Building Sites

Local authorities have been ”making good use of” (dimunfaatkan) the tapols by “giving them an opportunity to work on building projects, says the report. These Include military housing project & where all tapols employed are paid Rp. 300 a day {they actually receive only Rp. 250) regardless of whether the work done is unskilled or hlghly skilled technical work. On the free labour market, unskilled workers would be getting at least Rp. 800 a day.

About 200 tapols at Sumberredjo Camp have been put to work in this way. They are employed by the Engineering Section(zeni) of the Army which operates a ‘construction command’.

The Ambu Rawang Camp where 200 tapola are being held is known as a ”Restah” (resettlement tahanan or prisoner resettlement project). It is located in a forestry area, and the tapols are employed to fell trees for sleepers supplied under a contract concluded between the local military autorities and the state railway company (PNKA), and for a contract concluded with a Taiwanese timber company. Use of tapol labour has become so profitable to local military authorities that some military functionaries are trying hard toget their own ‘allocation’ of tapols.

simak / unduh TAPOL no 24 1977

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