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TNI NOT TO REINFORCE PERSONNEL ALONG E TIMOR-INDONESIAN BORDERS
April 29, 2005 11:08pm Antara
Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara, April 29 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian military (TNI)
will not reinforce its personnel along the East Timor-Indonesia borders
despite the recent shooting incident in the area that left an Indonesian
first lieutenant injured, a spokesman said on Friday.
"It seems that three battalions of soldiers that have been
deployed there are quite enough to protect our country's sovereignty
against foreign infiltration," chief of the Wirasakti Military
Command in East Nusa Tenggara Col. Amir Hamka Manan said.
First Lt. Deddy Setyawan was shot in the leg by police officers of the
East Timor Border Patrol Unit (BPU) last Friday as he and other Indonesian
soldiers were patrolling the border.
Tension along the border has been escalating following the UN's
decision to pull out peacekeeping forces from East Timor on May 20 after
more than five years of assignment.
Only recently, residents of Lakufoan village in Oecusee district, East
Timor, attacked Nelu hamlet in Timor Tengah Utara district, East Nusa
Tenggara.
Earlier, on Thursday, Col. Manan said the TNI would not attend any
meetings with East Timorese officials to discuss the recent shooting
incident before the perpetrators had been prosecuted.
(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
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