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WIRAJUDA TO ATTEND TIMOR LESTE'S INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY
Jakarta, Aug 28 (ANTARA) - Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda will attend celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Timor Leste's independence on August 30, a spokesman said.
"The foreign minister will attend the anniversary at the invitation of Timor Leste's president. The celebrations will take place on August 30," foreign ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said the minister would attend the ceremony as a form of Indonesia's goodwill in fostering good relations between the two countries.
"This is in the spirit of reconciliation ... to build friendly relations and a better future," he said.
Asked on the possibility of the screening of the 'Balibo' film during the ceremony, Faizasyah said that it was the right of the Timor Leste government to decide the agenda of its independence anniversary celebrations.
"We have been invited so that we will come as a form of our commitment. We will come not because we want to see the highlights of the ceremony," he said.
But where the Balibo incident was concerned, Indonesia and Timor Leste had already reached a common understanding about the facts which was also accepted by the Australian government. The case was actually already closed.
Last year, Robert Connoly directed the Balibo film which told the story of a few Australian TV journalists who died in Balibo, East Timor, on October 16, 1975.
Without interfering in the making of the film, the Indonesian government had previously hoped that the view of the Indonesian government on the Balibo incident would also be represented in it so that its message would be a balanced one.
The ministry spokesman said that if the content of the film was taken from unofficial literature or other unofficial sources, then the film was just fiction.
East Timor declared its independence from Indonesia after a UN-sponsored referendum during the government of former president BJ Habibie.
"The foreign minister will attend the anniversary at the invitation of Timor Leste's president. The celebrations will take place on August 30," foreign ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said the minister would attend the ceremony as a form of Indonesia's goodwill in fostering good relations between the two countries.
"This is in the spirit of reconciliation ... to build friendly relations and a better future," he said.
Asked on the possibility of the screening of the 'Balibo' film during the ceremony, Faizasyah said that it was the right of the Timor Leste government to decide the agenda of its independence anniversary celebrations.
"We have been invited so that we will come as a form of our commitment. We will come not because we want to see the highlights of the ceremony," he said.
But where the Balibo incident was concerned, Indonesia and Timor Leste had already reached a common understanding about the facts which was also accepted by the Australian government. The case was actually already closed.
Last year, Robert Connoly directed the Balibo film which told the story of a few Australian TV journalists who died in Balibo, East Timor, on October 16, 1975.
Without interfering in the making of the film, the Indonesian government had previously hoped that the view of the Indonesian government on the Balibo incident would also be represented in it so that its message would be a balanced one.
The ministry spokesman said that if the content of the film was taken from unofficial literature or other unofficial sources, then the film was just fiction.
East Timor declared its independence from Indonesia after a UN-sponsored referendum during the government of former president BJ Habibie.
