RI must retain East Timor<\/p>\n
Habibie's bungling in the case of East Timor has left the
\nPeople's Consultative Assembly (MPR) and Indonesia no other
\nlegitimate way out of the issue than the one explained below.<\/p>\n
1. Based on reasoning, once the MPR, thus the Indonesian
\nnation, has decided that a certain territory is part of Indonesia
\nand its people are Indonesians, it should stand forever, at least
\nuntil the time Indonesia as a state is no longer existing. So an
\nMPR decree on Indonesia's territory should be considered by the
\nMPR as irrevocable.<\/p>\n
2. Future steps: Now that East Timor has been presented to the
\nUnited Nations by Habibie, a person without any right whatsoever
\nto tinker with MPR decrees, the MPR session to decide on East
\nTimor should remain steadfast in the ideal that East Timor is an
\ninseparable part of Indonesia, even though it is accepted that
\nEast Timor as a territory is under temporary UN governance.<\/p>\n
Therefore the indigenous people of East Timor can remain
\nIndonesian, and are free to enter and settle in any other part of
\nIndonesia if they identify themselves upon entering as such,
\notherwise entry should be prohibited.<\/p>\n
Another consequence is that Indonesia remains obliged to see
\nto it that the people of East Timor are treated decently by
\nwhoever is in power there, or at least by protesting to the UN
\nand the world if they are inhumanly treated. An example was shown
\nin recent pictures of Australian soldiers handling East Timorese
\nin a way they would not even handle their own sheep at home or
\nperhaps like they usually treat their aboriginal citizens.<\/p>\n
3. Supporting factors for the above reasoning are, among other
\nthings:<\/p>\n
* Kosovo, which is under the UN, remains part of Yugoslavia
\n(Serbia).<\/p>\n
* China remains steadfast that Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan,
\nand the Spratley Islands, and so on, are inseparable parts of
\nChina.<\/p>\n
* Chechnya remains part of Russia.<\/p>\n
Therefore the stand to be taken by the MPR on East Timor will
\nindicate whether there are still nationalists in the sense of
\nnationalists with the 1945 spirit of Indonesia.<\/p>\n
JOOP WETIK<\/p>\n
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