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Jokowi's arrival in the Hague welcomed by protests

Tempo - April 23, 2016

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Prita Riadhin, Den Haag – At least 200 people staged a protest when welcoming President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo at the front yard of Kurhaus Hotel on Scheveningen beach, the Hague, the Netherlands of Friday (22/4).

The group claimed to be South Maluku and West Papua activists and from the International People Tribunal (IPT) 1965 as well as Indonesian people residing in the Netherlands.

Guarded by dozens of police, the protesters patiently waited for Jokowi come out of the gate of Kurhaus Hotel. Tempo contributor in Amsterdam Prita Riadhini reported that there were no violent actions during the protest.

In the meantime, Fransiska Pattipilohy from IPT 1965 said that they hoped that Jokowi would revoke the Presidential Decree that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is not the 'right movement'. She also said that those exiles hoped to have their rights as Indonesian citizens restored.

Fransiska also regretted that the majority of the exiles are Indonesian students who are not allowed to return to Indonesia. "Reconciliation cannot be reached without truth finding," she said.

Source: http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/04/23/055765251/jokowis-arrival-in-the-hague-welcomed-by-protests.