---------------------------------------------------------- Live and work in the USA legally: Register for the GREEN CARD LOTTERY! Visit http://www.us-immigration.org -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Indonesia Daily News Online http://www.indo-news.com/ Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Antara, 17 Agustus 2000 ACEH POLICE SEIZE UN FLAGS IN ACEH Banda Aceh, Aug 16 (ANTARA) - Local police have seized about 30 United Nations flags hoisted by the Aceh Referendum Information Centre (SIRA) in a number of places in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. Police Chief of Aceh Besar Superintendent Sayed Hoesainy said on Wednesday the hoisting of UN flags was against Indonesian law. Also on Wednesday, nearly 2,000 residents converged in the Daraussalam campus`s soccer field in Banda Aceh where they performed joint prayers and hoisted a UN flag and referendum flag on the same pole. The police also seized 24 flags hoisted alongside UN flags. "We will continue our operation to lower the UN flags which are still hoisted in a number of places in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar," he said. Sayed said the local people were have no right to hoist the UN flags because this was against national and international rules. Earlier, Chief of Aceh Police Commandant Doddy Sumantiawan said security agencies would take stern measures against those hoisting flags other than the Red-and-White banners during the celebration of Indonesian Independence Day on August 17. "I have been informed by the Foreign Ministry that anybody wishing to hoist a UN flag must obtain a permit from the world body and the government of the country where the flag is hoisted," he said. The hoisting of UN flags was an attempt to incite the local people to disrupt the commemoration of Indonesian Indepedence Day anniversary, he said. (U.BDA03/BDA01/NN01/ING/22:53/RSI-03) 1708000017 NNNN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 23 Aug 2000 jam 07:30:04 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
