By Xinhua,
Jakarta : An Indonesian minister has delivered documents on the alleged May 1998 mass rape of mostly ethnic Chinese women to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), local press said Saturday.
State Minister for Women’s Empowerment Meutia Farida Swasono handed over the documents to Attorney General Hendarman Supandji on Friday.
The documents contained results of research by psychology professor and women’s activist Saparinah Sadli, major English daily The Jakarta Post reported.
The research, sponsored by the National Commission on Violence Against Women, found that between May 13 and July 13, 1998, at least 152 women in Greater Jakarta were attacked.
Of this number, 138 were raped and tortured that led 19 of them to death, and 14 experienced other physical and sexual abuses (one died).
Most of these victims were Chinese-Indonesians.
The rapes allegedly took place following widespread anger directed at the country’s citizens of Chinese ethnicity, who were accused of being more affluent than other ethnic groups, the daily said.