Black-out on Java rioting
NZPA-Reuter Semarang, Java Heavily armed troops backed by armoured cars were yesterday patrolling the Indonesian provincial capital of Semarang and nearby Solo town after sporadic anti-Chinese rioting left one person dead and much property damaged. Both towns in the region, some 400 km from Jakarta, were under night curfews from 8 p.m. to help restore order after Indonesian youths roamed through them throwing stones at Chinese shop fronts, burning cars, and damaging houses.
A central Java military spokesman in Semarang said he could give no details to the media. He said he had received orders from the national security chief, Admiral Sudomo, in Jakarta of a news black-out on the disturbances, which began in Solo last Thursday and spread to Semarang on Wednesday. President Suharto, due to set off on State visits to Pakistan and India today, conferred with Cabinet Ministers and advisers amid concern about the trouble spreading.
Military sources confirmed that several dozen people were detained in both towns when the military and police moved in to stop a rampage, firing into the air. Calm was restored on Sunday night in Solo, 60km from Semarang, then flared up on Wednesday in Semarang, a bustling town of some 700,000 people. Military sources said the disturbances in Semarang seemed a carry-over from Solo, where trouble began after a quarrel between two Chinese pedestrians and an ethnic Indonesian on a bicycle.
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