---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ++ Pemilu Online: http://www.indo-news.com/pemilu/ ++ ---------------------------------------------------------- The Jakarta Post, June 23, 1999 Ex-Fretilin president says pro-autonomy will win JAKARTA (JP): Former Fretilin president Abilio Araujo says any delay in the Aug. 8 vote on the future of East Timor will not affect the results, adding that he is confident that the majority of the people will opt for autonomy within the Republic of Indonesia. "Far-ranging autonomy within Indonesia is the most realistic option for us and we East Timorese realize that. It doesn't matter when it is held, later in August, in November, or whenever, the results will be the same, autonomy within Indonesia," Araujo, who led the Fretilin resistance movement from 1981 to 1984, told The Jakarta Post here Tuesday. Araujo was responding to a United Nations plan to postpone the Aug. 8 ballot for security reasons. Later on Tuesday U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced he would postpone the Aug. 8 vote to an undetermined date, sometime in August, Reuters reported Wednesday. Annan said he based his decision on security and logistics for the balloting to etermine whether East Timor's 400,000 voters would have far-ranging autonomy under Indonesia or move towards independence. Araujo, who arrived in Jakarta last week, was here to attend a meeting organized by Dili Bishop Belo and Bishop Basilio Nascimento of Baucau from June 25-30. All the conflicting parties will be represented in the meeting to be held in Jakarta as a move towards reconciliation. "The two bishops called me from East Timor this morning and invited me to the meeting as an observer," said Araujo, who has held a series of meeting with various people, including Jose Alexandre Xanana Gusmao, while in Jakarta. "I met Xanana last Thursday. It was our first meeting after 25 years, said Araujo. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 25 Jun 1999 jam 07:07:47 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
