---------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe?, send your mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body mail: "signoff indonews" need more help?, send your mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body mail: "info refcard" ---------------------------------------------------------- Officials from East Timor to make protest visit to Jakarta DILI, East Timor, Feb 2 (AFP) - A delegation of officials from East Timor is to leave for Jakarta to lobby against Indonesia's offer to consider independence for the territory, officials here said Tuesday. "The delegates will leave for Jakarta tommorow (Wednesday)," a member of staff at the Dili district headquarters, who declined to be named, told AFP. He said the chief official in Dili district, Domingos Soares, left on Sunday for personal reasons. A source at the office of the governor said the heads of all East Timor's 13 districts, accompanied by the heads of the district parliament and other officials, will leave for Jakarta on Wednesday. The delegation plan to protest to the government its announcement last week that Indonesia may let go of East Timor, which it annexed 23 years ago, if a UN-backed proposal for wide-ranging autonomy for the troubled province was rejected by the population there, the source said. The trip to Jakarta had been agreed after the members of the delegations and other officials met for two days over the weekend at the residence of Governor Jose Osorio Abilio Soares. In Jakarta, sources close to the palace said that no meeting between President B.J. Habibie and a delegation from East Timor had been scheduled yet. The independence annoucement has sparked tension in the former Portugese colony of East Timor. Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 and unilaterally declared the territory its 27th province the following year but the move has not been recognized by the United Nations which still views Portugal as the official administrator. The meeting at the governor's residence called on everybody in East Timor to refrain from engaging in "anarchist" actions which will hurt dialogue between the different factions in the province. str-bs/pch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 2 Feb 1999 jam 09:47:18 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
