---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- also: Australia Warns Journalists Covering E Timor Referendum; and Indonesia Min: Need Probe Of Timor Violence Vs Journalists Associated Press August 27, 1999 Indonesia Rules Out Peacekeeping Force For East Timor LISBON, Portugal (AP)--A senior Indonesian official said Friday his country firmly opposed the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to quell violence in East Timor and warned the Indonesian military would "fight until the last soldier" if a force were deployed against Jakarta's wishes. A peacekeeping force "cannot be sent without prior agreement. If one is deployed, we'll send our troops in," Nugroho Wisnumurti, Indonesia's negotiator for East Timor, was quoted as saying by the Portuguese news agency Lusa. "We will never succumb to international pressure and we will never accept foreign soldiers in East Timor while the territory belongs to Indonesia," Wisnumurti said in an interview, according to Lusa. Indonesia has thousands of troops and police in East Timor but they have been unable to stamp out clashes between rival factions ahead of Monday's ballot on independence. Under a U.N.-sponsored agreement signed with Portugal in May, Indonesia is responsible for security in the run-up to the plebiscite. Pro-independence activists say they are being terrorized by armed pro-Jakarta groups. They have urged the U.N., which has several hundred unarmed police and military liaison officers in the territory of 800,000 people, to send an armed force to keep the peace. Wisnumurti, who was in Lisbon for talks with Portuguese and U.N. officials, denied accusations that Indonesian troops were backing some of the pro-Jakarta militiamen and blamed journalists for "manipulating" information, according to Lusa. ---------------- August 27, 1999 Australia Warns Journalists Covering E Timor Referendum CANBERRA (AP)--Australia Friday warned journalists who are covering East Timor's referendum on independence that they could be in danger. Australia's joint defense force is on alert in case Monday's vote results in violence, forcing an evacuation of the more than 200 Australians in the Indonesian territory of East Timor. "We've made it perfectly clear that visiting East Timor at this very sensitive time is dangerous and...that journalists are at particular risk," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "There is particular feeling among the pro-integrationists toward foreign journalists, toward journalists in general, because of the widespread reporting of various activities," Downer cautioned. "So I don't think there's any doubt that journalists are a particular target and they have to be especially careful." -------------- August 27, 1999 Indonesia Min:Need Probe Of Timor Violence Vs Journalists JAKARTA (AP)--Information Minister Yunus Yosfiah expressed concern Friday about violence against journalists in the Indonesian territory of East Timor and urged an investigation. Yosfiah spoke one day after a number of local and foreign journalists were attacked while covering a clash between pro- and anti-independence groups in Dili. The clash left at least three people dead. Among those assaulted were an Associated Press photographer and an APTN cameraman. Neither was injured. A Reuters photographer was shot in the leg. "I urge the security apparatus to investigate this case," Yosfiah said. "These incidents (can't) be neglected and should not reoccur." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 28 Aug 1999 jam 03:31:26 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
