Sandyawan Sumardi

The Father Jésuite Ignatius Sandyawan Sumardi is an eminent personality Indonesia of the Human rights.

He is in particular known to have trained a team of volunteers to inquire into the violences made at the time of the riots of Jakarta of May 1998, in particular the rapes of women of Chinese origin .

Biography

Wire of Andreas Sumardi, a lieutenant of police force to the retirement, and Suzana, the Sandyawan Father was born in Janeponto, in the province of Southern Sulawesi. With the wire of the assignments of his/her father, Kuncoro, name under which one called it in his childhood, grew in various places, with Makassar (capital of the province) then in various towns of Java.

Very early, it is animated desire to help the most stripped poor and. To the exit of the college, it enters to the Séminaire Metoyudan de Magelang (in the center of Java), then with the great seminar of Yogyakarta. It is ordered priest in 1988 then between with the Society of Jesus.

Become the Father Ignatius Sandyawan, defender of the populations marginalized by the economic policy of the mode Soeharto, it often has business with the police force. He is in particular at the sides of the Father Mangunwijaya, who defends of the peasants expelled for a project of stopping in Kedung Ombo in the center of Java.

The Sandyawan Father still makes speak about him at the time of the events of July 27th, 1996 in Jakarta. This day, of the groups of men as a civilian, the close-cropped hair, disciplined, takes by storm the seat of PDI-P, occupied by the partisans of Megawati Soekarnoputri (girl of the former president Soekarno), who protested against the ousting of this one of the presidency of the party at the time of a faked congress held with Medan (Northern Sumatra)… August 1st

The riots of May 1998 in Jakarta will make many victims, of which tens (one had started by speaking about hundreds) women, often of Chinese origin , violated by groups of men who seemed disciplined and trained. The Sandyawan Father then forms a group of volunteers charged to collect testimonys in order to ask for justice. This action will be worth with the Father to be stopped by the army and beaten.

Following the Tsunami of December 26th, 2004, which strikes several countries of South Asia and the South-eastern, and more particularly the province indonésienne of Aceh, the Sandyawan Father creates the Jaringan Relawan Kemanusiaan (" network of volunteers for the humanitaire") or JRK, which will very quickly organize helps of first urgency. Since, the JRK endeavors to be present on the spot struck by various catastrophes.

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