RI-East Timor meeting ends in deadlock

RI-East Timor meeting ends in deadlock

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Officials from the Indonesian
Military (TNI) and East Timor Police met again on Wednesday to
discuss a recent shooting that injured TNI officer First. Lt.
Deddy Setyawan.

The meeting ended in a deadlock, as the East Timor delegates
refused to disclose what they knew about the case pending a
permit from East Timor's Attorney General to probe the shooting,
Lt. Col. Yul Avianto, the chief of Indonesian troops securing
border between East Timor and Indonesia, said.

Wednesday's meeting, facilitated by a United Nations Military
Liaison Officer, was the second after the first meeting about the
incident on Saturday, a day after the shooting took place in a
border area between Indonesia and East Timor. The shooting, which
triggered tensions between the TNI and East Timor authorities,
happened after officer Deddy was injured after being shot by an
unknown assailant on the border.

TNI soldiers claimed that the perpetrator shot Deddy from East
Timor territory after Deddy and his troops chased some people
believed to be smuggling fuel to East Timor from Indonesia. -- JP