We will follow developments around the Dutch court ruling,"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government will monitor developments around a Dutch court ruling on the Rawagede executions by Dutch colonial troops in 1947, a presidential spokesman said.
"We will follow developments around the Dutch court ruling," Teuku Faizasyah, the president`s special aide on international affairs, said when asked to comment on the ruling at the presidential palace here on Thursday.
But Faizasyah declined to comment when asked what the government would do next to follow up the Dutch court ruling, especially with regard to the payment of compensation for the families of the victims.
He only said the government hoped the ruling could meet the people`s sense of justice.
A civilian court in the Netherlands had ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the executions carried out by its colonial troops in Rawagede, Karawang, West Java, on December 9, 1947.
The court ruled the government had to give compensation to the victims` families.
The widows of eight victims and one victim from Rawagede filed a lawsuit against the Dutch state in 2008 to demand compensation for men and children killed in 1947 by Dutch colonial troops.
The Dutch state admitted the executions but had insisted that no claim may be made due to the expiry of the statute of limitations in the Dutch law of five years.
The Dutch authorities stated 150 people were killed in the incident while according to the association of victims the number of dead victims was 431.(*)
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