VP to visit Soya, Kebun Cengkeh

Tue, 11 Jun 2002, 00:00 WIB

JAKARTA: Vice President Hamzah Haz is slated to arrive in Ambon
on Tuesday at 11:20 a.m. local time for a six-hour visit in the
Maluku capital.

Hamzah's entourage will include the new Indonesian Military
chief, Gen. Endriartono Sutarto, National Police chief Gen. Da'i
Bachtiar and several ministers.

Hamzah plans to visit Soya village, where seven Christians
were killed late in April, and Kebun Cengkeh, the stronghold of
Laskar Jihad Muslim hardliners.

Many consider the visit controversial because the Vice
President will also take with him 76 security guards. -- JP

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