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Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Computer chaos threat to Jakarta
A global network of computer hackers would bring Indonesia to a
standstill if Jakarta sabotaged this month's ballot on the future of East
Timor, the independence leader Mr Jose Ramos Horta said yesterday.
Mr Ramos Horta warned of a "desperate and ferocious"
international campaign against Indonesia that included developing a dozen
special viruses to infect the country's Indonesian electronic communications
systems, including aviation.
He told the Herald that more than 100 computer wizards, mostly
teenagers in Europe and the United States, had been preparing the plan that
would bring the world's fourth-most populous nation to a standstill for
weeks.
Banks, the stock exchange and government computer systems would
be particular targets.
Mr Ramos Horta, the Sydney-based Nobel laureate who represents
the East Timor independence movement outside Indonesia, said he had been
contacted by some of the people planning the attack and shown what they
could do.
"They definitely have the ability to do this," he said.
He approved of the plan if Indonesia reneged on giving the
former Portuguese colony independence if a majority of East Timorese
rejected an offer of autonomy at the vote scheduled for August 30.
"I was very impressed," Mr Ramos Horta said of the plan. "I told
them as long as it does not affect any lives, then go for it."
Mr Ramos Horta said he was revealing the plan to warn Indonesia
that it should not underestimate its adversaries.
Several years ago, a hacker in Portugal managed to enter a part
of the Indonesian Government computer system that allowed him to leave "Free
East Timor" messages and download 6,000 pages of documents from the
country's Foreign Ministry.
Mr Ramos Horta said he had told world bodies such as the UN and
the World Bank, and countries including the United States and Australia that
if the ballot was not free and fair, the conflict would continue.
"This time, our manners will be cast aside," he said.
But he remained confident that the worst outcome, civil war,
would not eventuate, because President B.J. Habibie and several of his key
ministers would "prevail against the hardliners". Mr Ramos Horta said East
Timorese groups and others, including wealthy Chinese in Hong Kong, had
pledged millions of dollars to "fight on our side and do whatever is
necessary". His comments follow a blunt warning on Monday from the detained
independence leader, Mr Xanana Gusmao, that his men would hunt down and kill
Indonesian soldiers who supplied weapons to pro-Jakarta militias.
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