USC 424 CBS USC use 3024 HEADER 0409272 DEC 98 FM DIA WASHINGTON DC INFO RUEADWDIOCSA WASHINGTON DC RUEACMCICMC WASHINGTON DC USC 4034a 04032 2 DE b 3 210 USC 424 Wodwmw USC 424 USC USC 403-10 RUEKJCSIDIA USC 424 RUEKJCSISECDEE USC 4034 1 USC 403 101 RU WASHDC RU EHCISECSTATE USC 403' USC 403-16 RUCQVABIUSCINCSOC 403-16 MACDILL AFB USC 403-16 FT MEADE MD USC 403-16 BT USC 424 page 8 CONTROLS SERIAL U THIS IS A COMBINED MESSAGE BODY COUNTRY 7U mm SUBJ PRELIMANARY TESTS COMPLETED - ON THE BULLETS FROM THE SEMANGGI RIOTS U WARNING U THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE REPORT CLASSIFIED - - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OI U 981201 REQS U USC 424 SOURCE U OPEN SOURCE DAILY NEWSPAPER JAKARTA 981201 U IN BAHASA INDONESIAN AN INDEPENDENT THIS NEWSPAPER IS THE LARGEST NATIONAL DAILY IN INDONESIA KOMPAS HAS HIGH QUALITY DOMESTIC REPORTING AND A NATIONWIDE CIRCULATION THIS IS THE MOST PROFESSIONAL DAILY IN JAKARTA SUMMARY U ACCORDING TO SOURCE PRELIMINARY TESTING HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY THE NATIONAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS FORENSIC LABORATORY CENTER PUSLABFOR IN JAKARTA ON THE PROJECTILES BULLETS AND FRAGMENTS FOUND IN THE VICTIMS DEAD BODIES FROM THE SEMANGGI RIOTS ON 981113 BULLETS WERE ALLEGEDLY FIRED FROM RIFLES WHICH ARE CARRIED BY MEMBERS OF KOSTRAD TEXT 1 U ACCORDING TO SOURCE PRELIMINARY TESTING HAS BEEN COMPLETED ON THE FRAGMENTS AND BULLETS FOUND IN THE DEAD BODIES OF STUDENTS KILLED ON 981113 AT SEMANGGI JAKARTA INDONESIA THE BULLETS ARE OF THE MU-5-TJ TYPE WHICH CAN BE FIRED FROM M16-A1 RIFLES MEMBERS OF KOSTRAD ARMY STRATEGIC COMMAND WERE ALLEGEDLY DISPATCHED WITH THE RIFLES AT SEMANGGI ON 981113 page 9 INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING 2 SOURCE REPORTS THAT PUSLABFOR COLLECTED ALL THE GUNS USED BY SOLDIERS AND POLICE AT SEMANGGI ON 931113 SOURCE REPORTS THAT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GUNS COLLECTED FOR TESTING BY PUSLABFOR WAS 14o RIFLES VIEWING THE SCENES AT SEMANGGI BOTH ON 981113 AND THE MORNING OF USED AT SEMANGGI WERE COLLECTED As IT APPEARED TO BE MORE THAN 140 RIFLES DEPLOYED SOURCE REPORTS THAT 65 RIFLES HAVE BEEN EXAMINED WHILE THE 75 REMAINING WILL BE TESTED IN THE NEXT WEEKS SOURCE STATES THAT ONLY TWO 2 TYPES OF RIFLES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AND INCLUDE THE FN PRODUCED UNDER LICENSE BY P T PINDAD IN BANDUNG AND THE RIFLE PRODUCED IN THE USA SOURCE REPORTS THAT THE 65 GUNS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXAMINED WERE FROM THREE 3 KOSTRAD UNITS WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO SEMANGGI ON 931113 THE KOSTRAD UNITS WERE FROM BEKANG TRANSPORTATION SUPPLIES HEALTH BATTALION AND BRIGIF INFANTRY BRIGADE 303 FROM GARUT WEST JAVA 3 U SOURCE REPORTS THAT FROM THE FOUR 4 BULLET FRAGMENTS FOUND THREE 3 WERE BROKEN WHILE THE FOURTH WAS FLAT BUT WHOLE PUSLABFOR REPORTEDLY MATCHED THE STEEL AND ZINC BULLET FRAGMENTS TO THE MU-5-TJ BULLET PRODUCED BY P T PINDAD PUSLABFOR IS STILL EXAMINING THE RIFLING MARKS ON THE FRAGMENTS AS WELL AS THE RIFLING FROM THE 140 RIFLES NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME COMMENTS THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING AND PROBABLY WILL BE FOR MONTHS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE TECHNICIANS AT PUSLABFOR HAVE MOVED QUICKLY IN IDENTIFYING THE TYPE OF RIFLE WHICH ALLEGEDLY FIRED LIVE ROUNDS AFTER IDENTIFYING THE TYPE OF RIFLE AS AN MIG-A1 AND ASSUMING THAT PUSLABFOR DOCUMENTED THE INDIVIDUAL WEAPONS AND THE SOLDIERS WHO CARRIED THEM IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY EASY TO QUESTION THE SOLDIERS WHOWERE ASSIGNED THESE RIFLES AT SEMANGGI PUSLABFOR CAN THEN FURTHER RESEARCH THE RIFLING MARKS FOUND ON THE FRAGMENTS WITH THE BORES OF THE RIFLES COLLECTED TO IDENTIFY THE SHOOTER OR SHOOTERS AS THE CASE MIGHT BE 2-69 THERE HAS BEEN SPECUALATION THAT SOME SOLDIERS WHO HAVE STOLEN A FEW LIVE ROUNDS DURING EXERCISES OR TARGET PRACTICE COULD CARRY THEM IN THEIR POCKETS DURING THE INCIDENT AT page 10 SEMANGGI ONE OR MORE SOLDIERS COULD HAVE LOADED A LIVE ROUND INTO THEIR RIFLES DURING THE HEAT OF BATTLE WITHOUT ANY ONE NOTICING THEM OR THAT LIVE ROUNDS WERE IN FACT FIRED ON 991113 OTHER THAN THE FRAGMENTS RETRIEVED FROM THE BODIES FOR EXAMPLE DURING THE MAY RIOTS AND THE TRI SAKTI SHOOTING COLLATERNAL EVIDENCE OF LIVE ROUNDS FIRED INCLUDED BULLET HOLES THROUGH GLASS WINDOWS AND PCT MARKS ON BUILDINGS 3 CAMPUS OF ATMA JAYA LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE THAT LIVE ROUNDS WERE IN FACT FIRED NO EVIDENCE WAS FOUND AFTER THE TRI SAKTI SHOOTING IN MAY COMMANDERS WERE TOLD TO CHECK THEIR SOLDIERS FOR LIVE ROUNDS DOSES NOT KNOW IF THIS PRACTICE WAS CONTINUED 3 1 6 THIS REPORT INDICATES THAT BULLETS RECOVERED FROM VICTIMS OF THE SEMANGGI INCIDENT ARE 5 56MM PROBABLY FIRED FROM U S -DESIGN INITIAL STATEMENTS FROM SEVERAL SENIOR ABRI OFFICERS C SUGGESTED THE BULLETS WERE NOT STANDARD ABRI TO OUR RECORDS 28 471 M16-A1 RIFLES WERE PROVIDED AS GRANT AID TO THE INDONESIAN MILITARY UNDER MAP BETWEEN 1972 AND 1978 HOWEVER A LARGER NUMBER OF M16-A1 RIFLES WERE PURCHASED DIRECTLY BY ABRI FROM THE U S MANUFACTURER THROUGH COMMERCIAL PURCHASES 115 bk3x - 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