| Subject: JP: Officials wary of Great Timor
State
Jakarta Post
February 26, 2005
Officials wary of Great Timor State
KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: A council commission has demanded that the
government follow up on a military report, which revealed that a group of
people on the Indonesian side of Timor island was trying to establish a
Great Timor State.
Pius Rengka, the head of Commission A overseeing governance at the East
Nusa Tenggara provincial council, said that the government should
investigate the group, in order to prevent it from becoming a bigger
movement.
The report was earlier given to the provincial council by a top officer
in North Central Timor district military command.
The Wirasakti Military Commander overseeing East Nusa Tenggara
province, Col. Moeswarno Moesanip, confirmed the report. He said that the
group of people had campaigned along the border of Indonesia and East
Timor. They apparently intend to create a nation combining East Timor and
the western half of Timor island, which is still Indonesian territory, and
call it the Great Timor State.
East Timor gained its freedom from Jakarta rule after a UN-sponsored
vote in 1999. -- JP
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