---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, AUG 6 1999 E Timor: Security Situation Remains Conducive During Registration Period Dili, E Timor, Aug 5 (ANTARA)- During 21 days of voters registration for the August 30 UN-administered autonomy ballot, East Timor's security situation has remained conducive despite small incidents, a spokesman for the Indonesian task force said here Thursday. "The number of registration-related incidents is too small. Among them are stone throwing at a UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) car and lowering Indonesia's red-white flag," Dino Patti Djalal told reporters here. Djalal is the spokesman of the Indonesian Task Force for Implementation of the Popular Consultation (P3TT), a team set up by the government to supervise the balloting process, conducted by the UNAMET in the troubled former Portuguese colony. The red-and-white flag lowering incident, he said, took place at Tiliomar registration post in Covalima district on July 22, while the stonr petling incident occured in East Timor provincial capital of Dili. Apart from these two incidents, ANTARA had noted that there was actually a tearing Indonesian flag incident in the Bazartete subdistrict town of Leorema, Liquica district. On the conducive security situation, Djalal said it was the result of the Indonesian police's hard work and seriuosness in making the ballot process a success. P3TT really appreciates their professionality because the Indonesian police had shown their sence of responsibility as stipulated in the May 5 New York Agreement. The Agreement says that the security situation shall be tha Indonesian police's responsibility, he said adding that this conducive situation must be maintained until balloting day. The registration period was officially kicked off on July 16 and was initially to have ended on August 4. But the UN secretary general eventually decided to extend the period. Meanwhile, on the first day of the extended registration period in East Timor, many government and private workers left their offices for home early. Several East Timor provincial administration officials told ANTARA that they did not go to work because they were busy preparing their personal documents for the voter registration. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had approved the recommendation of UNAMET to extend the registration period in East Timor for two full days (Aug.6) in order that all East Timorese people can be registered. UNAMET chief Ian Martin said on Wednesday the registration period at 13 locations outside East Timor was extended until Aug 8, 1999. The 13 locations are in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Ujungpandanga, Sydney, Darwin, Perth, Melbourne, Lisbon, Maputo, Macao and New York. >From the Central Java town of Salatiga, ANTARA reported that 15 out of 17 East Timorese living there had departed to Yogyakarta to register. A similiar phenomenon could also be seen in the West Kalimantan city of Pontianak where some 105 East Timorese living and working in the city went to Yagyakarta to register and cast their votes there. According to Altidi Santos, a member of an independent organization, he had collected data on the East Timorese living in Pontianak from the province's Manpower Office. The UNAMET election commission in Dili said that by last August 2 a total of 410,556 East Timorese had registered. As many as 400,314 of them registered in East Timor. (T.ANTARA TEAM/NN-03/20:15/INT-AJM-22:30/NN01/22:55/TB02) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 10 Aug 1999 jam 10:37:01 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
