Hercules Rosario Marçal

Hercules Rosario Marçal (* before 1973 in Ainaro , Portuguese Timor ) is an Indonesian from East Timor . He is the head of the Indonesian movement Gerakan Rakyat Indonesia Baru GRIB ( New Indonesian People's Movement ), which appears in camouflage clothing and red berets and was founded in May 2012. Hercules states that GRIB's goal is to support the socially disadvantaged. According to its own information, GRIB has six million members in Indonesia, 17,000 of them in Jakarta. Here she is said to have collected protection money from shop owners.

Career

As a child, Americo was torn from his family by the Indonesian occupation forces and deported to Indonesia. A fate that he shared with about 4,000 other East Timorese children.

Hercules was recruited by the Indonesian military for the Kopassus special unit to fight the East Timorese resistance in his homeland. Allegedly he coordinated networks in the underworld for this. FALINTIL fighters were tracked down by Hercules and turned over to the Kopassus for interrogation. East Timor had been occupied by Indonesia since 1975. Hercules has lived in Jakarta since 1986 and worked there successfully as a debt collector . The Tanah Abang gang he led raided illegal gambling dens, was involved in prostitution, extorted protection money and fought for territory with rival gangs. There were also deaths. The police stayed out of it. In this way Hercules became one of the most famous gangsters in Indonesia.

Hercules is said to have had close ties to Indonesian generals during the Suharto period and is accused by the United Nations of having been active in the violent rioting in 1999 . Here he organized with the help of criminal counter-demonstrations by so-called "pro-Indonesian Timorese" to pro-independence protests and is also said to have been involved in the violence, which a total of 3,000 people fell victim to.

For money, Hercules is also said to organize demonstrations in Jakarta, for example in December 2012 for the presidential candidate and ex-general Prabowo Subianto when there was violence in front of the Indonesian parliament. 40,000 people demonstrated for the promotion of community workers to civil servants. Prabowo was the head of the Kopassus in East Timor and is associated with human rights violations in this context. In September 2012, Hercules supported the eventual winner of the Jakarta gubernatorial election, Joko Widodo , who was backed by Gerindra from Prabowo's party . Since an incident, Hercules has had a false right eye, and the right forearm and hand are crippled.

Hercules is suspected of funding Alfredo Reinado , who led rebel soldiers in East Timor from 2006 to 2008. Reinado was killed in an attempt to assassinate the East Timorese government. Hercules visited Dili together with the Indonesian Investor Club shortly before the attacks.

In 2008, Hercules was arrested in Indonesia for organizing an attack on a businessman. He had been beaten up by Hercules' gang. Hercules was imprisoned for three to four months. Hercules today distances himself from his criminal past. He built a Catholic elementary school and provides rice for eleven orphanages. He also operates a fishing fleet and boat rental with 200 employees.

In early January 2013 Hercules briefly visited East Timor's capital Dili . The Commander in Chief of the Defense Forces East Timor (F-FDTL) Lere Anan Timor criticized this as an attempt to cause unrest. He sees Hercules as a symbol of the past that he wants to arrest and hold to account. With his presence Hercules also supported land claims by East Timorese who had fled to Atambua in West Timor , Indonesia , after the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 . The East Timorese government is currently trying to make it possible for these refugees, who supported the Indonesian occupiers and who sometimes terrorized the civilian population in militias ( wanra ), to return peacefully. Lere Anan Timor is considered an opponent of these plans, as he sees them as a threat to peace in East Timor. Indonesian politicians and the GRIB protested the threat. Members of the East Timorese National Parliament rejected the request for an apology from Lere Anan Timor.

On March 9, 2013, Hercules was arrested in Jakarta. He had broken the windows of a shop and was charged with illegally possessing weapons. In July 2013, Hercules was sentenced to four months in prison for causing disturbance and property damage. In May 2014, he was sentenced to three years in prison for extortion. Until the legal process has been exhausted, he remains at large.

Private

Hercules has four children.

Web links

• Hercules and GRIB website (Indonesian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Di'ak Ka Lae: Hercules: from Ainaro to Jakarta (I) , accessed on January 20, 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b} Inilah.com: Densus 88 Kembali Bekuk 2 Orang Teroris di Makasar , January 4, 2013, accessed on January 20, 2013
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} The Jakarta Globe: Hercules - Protest Organizer for Hire in Jakarta ( April 17, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ), January 2, 2013, accessed January 20, 2013
4. ↑ BBC: The girl who was 'stolen' by a soldier , March 26, 2017 , accessed July 31, 2020.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Radio Australia: Gang leader Hercules causes angst in East Timor , January 16, 2013, accessed January 20, 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b} Timor Post: Possible inquiry into Hercules' links to February 11 , March 18, 2008
7. ↑ The Jakarta Globe: Hercules' Visit To East Timor Prompts Call For His Arrest , January 14, 2013 , accessed January 20, 2013
8. ↑ Berita: GRIB Minta Panglima Pertahanan Timur Leste Minta Maaf , January 14, 2013 (Indonesian), accessed on January 20, 2013
9. ↑ Jornal Independente: National Parliament Does Not Want Lere to Apologize to Hercules , January 16, 2013
10. ↑ The Jakarta Globe: Following Arrest, Hercules Says He Will Comply With Law Enforcement ( April 17, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ), March 10, 2013, accessed March 12, 2013
11. ↑ Jakarta Globe: Gang Leader Hercules Gets Three Years in Jail For Extortion ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 8, 2014, accessed May 16, 2014.