Word: detik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March, while covering the trial of financier Eddy Tansil, who is accused of using letters of credit to swindle $436 million of government funds, DeTik published copies of letters written by former government officials that may implicate them in the fraud. "We had the same documents," says Susanto Pudjomartono, editor of the daily Jakarta Post, "but we didn't print them...
...DeTik's greatest scoop, however, came while the paper was acting as a conduit for political signals. Last October, Suharto installed Information Minister Harmoko, who has no military credentials, as chief of the ruling Golkar Party -- a post that had previously been reserved for generals. The weekly published an interview with Army Major-General Sembiring Meliala, a former member of Parliament, who warned that the military would not tolerate being pushed away from the centers of power -- raising the specter of a clash between the President and the military...
...months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...
Eros sees DeTik's role as essentially constructive. "My enemy is not the government," he says. "It is backwardness. The quality of our education and social services does not match the modern facades of our buildings. Our physical development is rapid, but our intellectual development is limited...
Despite its audacity, some observers are convinced that DeTik is getting high-powered support -- perhaps from the military. "You don't get this kind of information unless someone hands it to you," says an Indonesian government official. Now that the government has issued its latest warning to the brash journal, however, it remains to be seen how much support DeTik can continue to muster. Despite all the welcome and unwelcome attention, Eros seems undaunted. | "If you are afraid," he says, "then don't do anything in this country." A sensible warning no doubt, but one he at least clearly does...