---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, September 24, 1999 E Timor: Interfet Discriminative In Treating Journalists-MP Jakarta, Sept 23 (ANTARA)- A senior legislator has strongly protested Australian Defence Minister John Moore for urging all journalists to leave East Timor, except those who have received accreditation from the International For for East Timor (Interfet). "We must strongly protest the action," Chief of the House Commission for security, legal, defence and administration affairs Aisyah Amini said on Thursday. All the Indonesian journalists, the community and the government should remain united to oppose More's proposal, she said. "In addition to being unfair in terms of news reporting, Australia has also blatantly tried to dominate the international community's opinion," she said. She suggested that the Indonesian security authorities discuss the one-sided policy because what is happening in East Timor is not the business of Australia but of the United Nations. Moore had earlier urged journalists who remain in East Timor to immediately leave the territory, urguing Interfet does not guarantee their safety. A spokesman for the Australian Defence Ministry said about 300 journalists remain in east Timor, and 41 of them hold a letter of accreditation issued by Interfet. Because of the absence of security guarantee, about 60 Indonesian journalists were forced to leave the East Timorese capital of Dili by Friday at the latest. A total of 25 Indonesian journalists have arrived in Kupang, capital of the East Nusa Tenggara province, by an Indonesian Air Force passenger plane. (T-KL-01/21.37/NN01/00:00/INT-AJM-01:15/NN01/01:13/TB02) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 28 Sep 1999 jam 13:27:51 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
