Several victims and their families are skeptical about President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s plan to apologize for previous human rights abuses.
Saying sorry was not enough, according to Maria Catarina Sumarsih, 60, the mother of Bernandus Realino Norma Irmawan, a student who was killed in the 1998 Semanggi shooting incident.
“What concerns us is that no concrete actions will be taken as a follow-up to the public apology,” she told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.