Anand Krishna, an Indonesian spiritual guru known as a productive writer is an amazing person. He makes Su Rahman - a founder of Cipta Karya Mandiri Web Service Solution – loves his country a lot. Su rahman said that before meeting and knowing Anand Krishna, he is such a person that does not care about his country. He was pessimist about Indonesia because of certain reasons.
But things changed when he met Anand Krishna, an India descent yet with his strong nationality to Indonesia where he was born. To Su Rahman, Anand Krishna is such an inspiration to his life. He always speaks up about humanity, peace, love and harmony.
Anand Krishna which is also an ambassador for peace recognized by The Universal Peace Federation in 2010 is facing a charge toward a sexual harassment as told by someone claimed as his former disciples. He has been undertaking a hearing process at South Jakarta District Court since August last year. Yet,no single evidence found that he did the thing.
Although the panel of judges realize that there is not any evidence that Anand Krishna is against Indonesian law of doing any sexual harassment, but on Wednesday March 9, 2011, he was detained and sent to Rutan in Cipinang, East Jakarta. Since then knowing that his detention is unfair for him, Anand Krishna decided to do hunger strike as his protest against the panel of judges decision.
During his stay in Rutan Cipinang, several activists and figures visited him to give support. According to them, Anand Krishna’s detention does not make any sense because he was not guilty since during the hearing process, he was cooperative (never missed attending the hearing process) and the panel could not prove that he did any crime. One of them said the detention is because Anand Krishna speaks a lot about pluralism and this might be thing that certain people do not like and want to silence him.
On Wednesday March 16, 2011 although he was weak, Anand Krishna still came to attend the court but when he was walking down the stairs to enter the court room, he collapsed. It was at about 14:20 pm at Indonesian time. Then he was given medical help from the authorities there. And at about 15:00 pm Indonesian time, he was sent to Fatmawati hospital, South Jakarta.
Today, Tuesday March 22, 2011 is the fourteenth day he does his hunger strike. Even though he lays on the hospital he keeps on doing it. He won’t stop it unless his detention is taken by the panel of judges. This is his testimony on his hunger strikereleased on March 13, 2011.:
1. There is a greater purpose than my detention. However, this violates the innocence presumption's principle. Yet human rights and Indonesian basic law guaranteed the freedom of every citizen. How can I be detained if so far I have never been absence in the court? I always cooperative eventhough my health condition is poor as known by the Prosecutor, High Attorney and the Judges. In contrary, those who have slandered me did not attend the court frequently.
2. My purpose on hunger strike in order that the state and this nation can assess how the legal distinction of justice can still be tricked by people who have positions and solely for the reason "our authority".
3. It needs a total transformation and not merely in the field of law reform
4. I am disappointed with the judges and prosecutors with the system that does not run and still be able oppressed anyone.
5. I'm not angry, but once again. Disappointed and this hunger strike purely so that all that is wrong can be corrected by upholding human rights and justice.
Su Rahman said that Anand Krishna’s body may collapsed but not his spirit. His spirit will continue to spread out as we can see now that his spirit is in Su Rahman. As you can see from articles written by Su Rahman, you may believe that he has got the spirit. The spirit of Life….
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