HTML pages designed & maintained by Alifuru67 Copyright © 1999/2001 - 1364283024 & 1367286044		Ambon Island   Ambon City        Latupatti   Want to Help? The Jakarta Post, (10/9/2001 6:31:17 PM) Australia warns its citizens to avoid Indonesia, except Bali JAKARTA (Agencies): Similar to the British government, Australia on Tuesday warned its nationals to avoid neighboring Indonesia after radical groups threatened to attack westerners in retaliation for the US-led strikes of Afghanistan. "Australians should defer travel to Indonesia if they are thinking of going, with the exception of Bali," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told journalists as quoted by AFP. "It's still the judgment of our embassy in Jakarta and our consulate in Bali that it's perfectly safe to go to Bali. "We would expect some demonstrations by the radical Islamic groups in Indonesia and there have been demonstrations in the past already by those people," he said. Indonesia's 200 million-plus population is predominantly Muslim, although the inhabitants of the island of Bali, a popular tourist destination, are mainly Hindu. The warning came after groups of extremists in Indonesia threatened to attack westerners and to drive them from the archipelago in response to the United States-led strikes against Afghanistan. The attacks on strongholds of Afghanistan's rulingfundamentalist Taliban regime marked the beginning ofWashington's retaliatory "war on terrorism" after terroriststrikes in New York and Washington last month left thousands dead and missing. The Taliban is accused of harboring Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the attacks on the US. Copyright © 1999-2001  - Ambon Berdarah On-Line * http://www.go.to/ambon HTML pages designed and maintained by Alifuru67 * http://www.oocities.org/baguala67 Send your comments to alifuru67@egroups.com