A group of victims from the 1984 Tanjung Priok tragedy say they will meet members of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) in efforts to help them restore their rights as victims.

M. Daud B from Kontras human rights organization, the facilitator of the meeting, says the visit to the LPSK was to conducted to mark and remember the 1984 tragedy.

“Today, we and the Tanjung Priok victims will hold a meeting with the LPSK so that the rights of victims are recovered and restored,” Daud says in a press release as quoted by kompas.com on Wednesday.

The Tanjung Priok tragedy occurred on Sept. 12, 1984. Dozens of civilians died when the army began shooting wildly at protesters who demanded that four fellow civilians detained by the subdistrict military command (Koramil) be released.

Community leader Amir Biki was also killed in the tragedy.