---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Sydney Morning Herald Friday, August 20, 1999 EAST TIMOR Fury over computer threat Dili: Indonesia attacked the East Timorese independence activist and Nobel laureate, Mr Jose Ramos Horta, yesterday over a plan to sabotage Indonesia's computer network. A senior official of the Foreign Ministry, Mr Dino Patti Djalal, said Indonesia regarded the threat as "extremely serious" and had referred it to the Ministry for Political and Security Affairs for "preventative action". "This is terrorism against democracy," Mr Djalal said in the East Timor capital, Dili. Mr Ramos Horta warned this week of a "desperate and ferocious" international campaign against Indonesia if Jakarta reneges on a United Nations-brokered agreement to give the former Portuguese territory its independence should a majority of East Timorese vote in favour at the August 30 ballot. Diplomats and analysts monitoring developments in East Timor believe the vote will overwhelmingly favour separating from Indonesia after 24 years of brutal rule. But powerful figures in Indonesia's armed forces and Government are strongly opposed to the move. Mr Ramos Horta said in Sydney that more than 100 computer wizards, mostly teenagers in the United States and Europe, had told him they were preparing the plan to bring Indonesia to a standstill, if the Government robbed East Timor of its independence. "I told them as long as it does not affect any lives, then go for it," Mr Ramos Horta had said. Mr Djalal told reporters the threat "is not conducive to his stature as a Nobel laureate." - Lindsay Murdoch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 19 Aug 1999 jam 18:56:18 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
